A buried box of photos reveals a Jewish photographer's chronicle of life in the Lodz Ghetto

1940

A man walking in winter in the ruins of the synagogue on Wolborska street (destroyed by Germans in 1939).

Image: Henryk Ross, Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, they created walled-off ghettos in the larger cities to concentrate and imprison the Jewish residents

Henryk Ross worked as a news and sports photographer in the city of Lodz. Once in the city’s ghetto, he was employed by the Department of Statistics to shoot identification photos and propaganda images of the factories which used Jewish slave labor to produce supplies for the German Army. Read more...

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