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About Charlotte Gerber Turner

Charlotte Gerber Turner is a photographer who works in black and white as well as color. In this collection of photographs from "Painted with the blood of our Ancestors": A Shtetl Pilgrimage, Turner presents a personal photographic narrative of her family's journey to the Belarus village of Postov to revisit the places and circumstances in which her family was murdered. Her perspective is as the only American born member of her family. Charlotte was born in the first weeks of the American involvement in World War II. Her parents, alone among their respective families, immigrated to the United States in the late 1920's and early 1930's . Her sister, Shifra, arrived in 1939. All remaining family members left behind were killed in the Holocaust.

During the Cold War years, Charlotte Gerber Turner was an activist working within the U.S.S.R. for the rescue of Soviet Jewry. She was also in Ethiopia engaged in rescue operations for the Ethiopian Jewish community and served on the international board of Givat Haviva, an institution in Israel to promote better understanding between the Jewish and Arab populations through educational programing. In addition she has assumed a multifacted leadership role in the local Jewish community and internationally.

In addition to her work as a photographer, Turner is archivist of the historic "Edward Livingston, Mystery Point Archive and Collection". She has contributed to historic restoration projects. Charlotte is a bike touring enthusiast and delights in hiking and cooking. She resides in Morristown, New Jersey, with her husband Alvin.