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Henryk Ross

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31: 167:. In the fall of 1944, Ross buried his photos and negatives in a box, hoping they might survive as a historical record. 800 Jews, including Henryk Ross, were temporarily left in the ghetto in order to clean it (8 mass graves were already prepared for them). But the Nazis did not manage to murder them before the liberation of the ghetto by the 152:
Part of his official duties was taking identity photographs. He constructed a three level stage in his studio that let him photograph up to twelve people with a single negative. While the authorities only supplied him enough film for assigned work, this trick allowed him extra film he could use for
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His unofficial images covered scenes from daily life, communal celebrations, children digging for scraps of food and large groups of Jews being led to deportation and being loaded into box cars.
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in January 1945. Ross was able to dig up the box with the photos. Much of his material was damaged or destroyed by water; still, about half of his 6,000 images survived.
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atrocities (such as public hangings) while remaining officially in the good graces of the German occupational administration.
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In 1944, the Nazis started the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto and the deportation of the remaining Jews from it to
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Ross was born in 1910. Ross was a sports photographer for a Warsaw newspaper, prior to World War II.
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Starting in 1940, Ross had been employed by the Department of Statistics for the
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In 2021, a gift of 48 of Ross's silver gelatin prints were given to the
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photographer who was employed by the Department of Statistics for the
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Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
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Polish Jewish photographer who documented the Łódź Ghetto
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Index

Henryk Ross
Gideon Hausner
Eichmann-Trial
Judenrat
Łódź Ghetto
Polish Jewish
Jewish Council
Łódź Ghetto
the Holocaust in occupied Poland
Jewish Council
Łódź Ghetto
the Holocaust in occupied Poland
Nazi
Chelmno
Auschwitz
Red Army
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston



"The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross"
"Fotografie z getta Henryka Rossa"
the original
Łódź Ghetto: A History


Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
"Agence VU Henryk Ross"

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