leica camera

This camera revolutionized photojournalism. Theses cameras were smaller than any previous cameras. Leitz a medical equipment designed the first camera to fit on a microscope. The mechanism was adapted from early cine cameras. They used 35mm cine film which meant that journalist could send their unexposed images, in a film cassette, by mail.

The shape and size of cameras still follow the basic design of the leica camera to this day.

This camera belong to my father Sigmund Kohn. I was given to him in 1938 by his brother-in-law Erik Lauder when he traveled to the United Kingdom. In 1938 my father was a refugee from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia. He found refuge in the U.K where he met my mother. The rest of his family died in concentration camps.