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Title: Inside the Lodz Ghetto A record of atrocity and resistance, buried in a wooden box
Post by: mystery-ak on April 05, 2017, 01:37:13 am

1940-1944

Inside the Lodz Ghetto

A record of atrocity and resistance, buried in a wooden box

by Alex Q. Arbuckle

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.

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http://mashable.com/2017/04/02/inside-the-lodz-ghetto/#31NLcpIg2Zqx

Title: Re: Inside the Lodz Ghetto A record of atrocity and resistance, buried in a wooden box
Post by: TomSea on April 05, 2017, 04:08:30 pm

That is some photo essay. They have some others worth a look too. I saw similar photos of these of the Warsaw ghetto.

A postcard of Lodz from the invasion; http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bXWNsXg5a8Q/UNLVmnnLxoI/AAAAAAACInk/T9-FUx-eV80/s640/Photos+of+The+Lodz+Ghetto,+1940-1944+(15).jpg unbelievable times.

Title: Re: Inside the Lodz Ghetto A record of atrocity and resistance, buried in a wooden box
Post by: dfwgator on April 05, 2017, 04:19:17 pm

The head of Lodz Ghetto, Chaim Rumkowski, was killed by his fellow Jews, not by the Nazis.