Photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw
Extent and Medium
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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.
Subjects
- Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Warsaw.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document