Washington Heights

More than 20,000 German and Austrian Jews made this Northern Manhattan neighborhood their new home after fleeing from the Nazis. Sixty years after the Holocaust, the so-called Frankfurt on the Hudson has lost much of its former vibrancy. But the community is still alive and well.

 


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This project was conceptualized by Raphael Ahren, a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism