Colour photographs taken in the Lodz Ghetto by a Austrian photographer named Walter Genewein
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Colour photographs taken in the Lodz Ghetto by a Austrian photographer named Walter Genewein
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In 1987 someone rummaging in a second hand bookstore in Vienna came across a set of about 400 color slides. Upon examination, they turned out to be images of the Lodz ghetto, taken by Walter Genewein, the Nazis' chief accountant. After Genewein died, his companion sold the pictures to the bookstore in Vienna. From there, they made their way into the collection of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, and also into Jablonski's movie "Photographer".
Genewein must have had his reasons for selecting one view over another and for carefully numbering the images, as if to create a sequence.
There were three straw workshops in the ghetto: an upholstery workshop, a brush workshop, and - seen in the photograph - a straw shoe workshop.
In the show workshop, straw soles were manufactured for the Wehrmacht soldiers on the Russian front. Straw soles manufactured in the ghetto, along with a tar layer, were used against the cold weather. These shoe soles were stiff, and were therefore used by soldiers whose assignments did not require much walking, such as guards.
On the back, wearing a green shirt - Pnina Fuks, who survived and lived in Herzliya (identified by Arie Ben Menachem).
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There were three straw workshops in the ghetto: an upholstery workshop, a brush workshop, and a shoe workshop.
In the show workshop, straw soles were manufactured for the Wehrmacht soldiers on the Russian front. Straw soles manufactured in the ghetto, along with a tar layer, were used against the cold weather. These shoe soles were stiff, and were therefore used by soldiers whose assignments did not require much walking, such as guards.
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There were three straw workshops in the ghetto: an upholstery workshop, a brush workshop, and - seen in the photo - a straw-shoe workshop.
In the show workshop, straw soles were manufactured for the Wehrmacht soldiers on the Russian front. Straw soles manufactured in the ghetto, along with a tar layer, were used against the cold weather. These shoe soles were stiff, and were therefore used by soldiers whose assignments did not require much walking, such as guards.
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This photo was taken from Zgierska St. ("Hohensteiner") from outside the ghetto fence next to the church (behind the trees on the right), looking east into what pre-war was Brzezinska Street, now Wojska Polskiego, called "Sulzfelder" by the occupying Germans. The red brick entrance that can be seen on the left is on the corner of Lagiewnicka ("Hanseaten") and is the entrance to what was then the Jojne Pilcer market.
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At the center - Bajla Rotsztajn, born 1923; on the right - her younger sister, Perla Blima Rotsztajn, born 1925; daughters of Herszel Zvi and Reizel Rachel Rotsztajn. The older sister, Fani, moved to France earlier and survived. Another brother, Yehoszua, escaped to Russia with his wife when the war began, and survived. The youngest son, Mosze, lived in the ghetto with his parents and his two sisters (in the photograph). The father died in the ghetto. Mosze joined his mother and two sister when they were deported to Birkenau. They did not survive. Mosze survived, and recognized his sisters in the photograph.
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