Photograph of two men in the Łódź ghetto

Identifier
irn523226
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.554.1
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Aliza Ziegler

The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Aliza Ziegler.

Scope and Content

The photograph depicts two mailmen wearing suits standing near the entrance of a building on a sidewalk in the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź, Poland). Both men are wearing armands and Star of David badges. The man on the right is Yeshayahu Sewek Krotoszynski (b. 1923). He survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and escaped from a death march in January 1945.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single series.

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