Henryk Chęciński photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Creator(s)
- Henryk Chęciński
Biographical History
Henryk Chęciński (1915-1944) was an amateur photographer from Warsaw, Poland. He was arrested during a random round up around 1941-1942. He was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and later transferred to the Gusen subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp where he was killed.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Andrzej Chęciński In Memory of his Uncle Henryk Chęciński
The Henryk Chęciński photograph collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Andrzej Chęciński in 2016. Andrzej is the nephew of Henryk Chęciński.
Scope and Content
The collection contains 45 photographs taken by amateur photographer Henryk Chęciński in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, circa 1939-1940. Subjects include bombed buildings, makeshift graves, German soldiers, Polish soldiers, German soldiers marching groups of Jewish men in the street, three hanging men in front of a crowd, and people in the street.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as two folders.
People
- Chęciński, Henryk, 1915-1944.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.