Ukrainian Survivor Dachau Concentration Camp

Your comments are welcome. Thanx J

maybe a verticle crop would look better?

Maybe. But I like the blurring of the background. Maybe it could work as a horizontal if the subject was a little off center, say on the right side of the frame.

Yes, you could crop more off the right perhaps. Because there is a distracting eyeglass frame to the viewer's right of this subject's (left) shoulder also. But otherwise a handsome portrait and one where I think the horizontal orientation is definitely appropriate to match the subject's very horizontal smile.