Photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw

Identifier
irn539598
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.506.35
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.

Funding Note: The acquisition of this document was made possible by the Crown Family.

Purchase, 2014.

Scope and Content

Contains 13 photographs, taken by an unidentified photographer, presumably German, and mounted on a photo album page, circa 1939-1942. One on side of the album page, is the caption "Das jüdische Getto in Warschau," with seven photographic prints pasted on, depicting various street scenes, including people being conveyed in carts, people pulling carts laden with sacks of goods, and a street with a fence blocking off one side of it. The verso of this page includes six images, including destroyed buildings in Warsaw, two German soldiers sitting at a cafe on the banks of the Vistula River, and German soldiers next to a railcar on their journey to Warsaw.

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Genre

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