Being and not being in time and place

Based on an analysis of one family album, this article asks: How do the categories of place and space help to expand our understanding of the Jewish experience under the National Socialist dictatorship, a time when the regime sought to dis-place German Jews? The photographs reveal complicated attempts to insist upon their belonging to the local landscape and society, just as many of the images pointed to the family's marginalization and absence from the places they visited. I show that experience and deployment of time play a key role in the family's strategy to make claims to place and belonging.