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Enquête d’Identité: Patrick Zachmann’s Quest for Identity

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Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité Rite of the Kapparah. A young Hassid, praying before the slaughtering of the chicken by a 'cacher' butcher. The chicken is then offered to the poor, following the tradition of the Eve of Yom Kippur (...)
Patrick Zachmann Circumcision in a jewish family from Tunisia. Paris, France. December, 1979. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Inauguration of a Sepher-Torah, a document containing the Torah, in a local house of prayer. Paris, France. May, 1979. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité Celebration for the 33rd anniversary of the State of Israel. Paris, France. 1981. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité First Worldwide meeting of Holocaust survivors. Jerusalem, Israel. June, 1981. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann 33rd anniversary of the State of Israel. Jewish Hassidic Orchestra preform at the Salle Gaveau. Paris, France. March 16, 1981. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité First Worldwide meeting of Holocaust survivors. A survivor of the concentration camps. Jerusalem, Israel. June, 1981. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité Patrick Zachmann's relatives: Janine with her son. Bouches du Rhône, France. July, 1983. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité Mr Friedman electrician and Yiddish poet, with his wife. Paris, France. October, 1981. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité Jewish family from Egypt. Mrs Susy Baragan, with her three daughters. Paris, France. 1983. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité 'Club 78' on the Champs Elysees avenue. Paris, France. 1981. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité La Pitié-Salpétrière hospital. Patrick Zachmann's wife and newborn son Théo. Paris, France. 1986. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Patrick Zachmann's mother (left) with her sisters. Paris, France. 1981. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Lissette Chelly, dentist. Val d'oise, France. March, 1984. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Jerusalem, June 1981.

Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

1st Worldwide meeting of Holocaust survivors. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Jean-Marc Luisada, pianist. Paris, France. 1984. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann FRANCE. Ile-de-France. Hauts-de-Seine. Cemetery of Bagneux. April 1981.

Anti-semitic writings in the Jewish part of the cemetery.

70 graves were desecrated. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann | Enquête d'Identité Prayers for the deceased on the seventh day of Shiva. Hauts-de-Seine, France. January, 1986. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos