Baranovich Online
Lot 61:
Seven small photographs taken in World War II Poland. Each photograph is 6 x 8.5 cm.
Four photographs from the early years of the occupation showing Jews with the new reality etched clearly on their faces. On the reverse of the photographs are German inscriptions, e.g., Jüdische Weiber (Jewish women) and Jüdische Kinder (Jewish children). The other three photographs were taken later in the war (probably in Lodz, according to the caption of one of them) and portray suffering Jews wearing the yellow star on their clothes and German soldiers standing next to them. These photographs were apparently taken by German soldiers, as it has recently come to light that Nazi soldiers regularly sent photographs of the atrocities to their families back home in Germany.
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