Photograph of employees in Łódź ghetto
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Inka Waner Honigman.
Scope and Content
The photograph depicts a group of employees in the economic administration department in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Rachel Waner [donor's mother], seated on right, was a teacher, and in the ghetto she was the principal of a school on 6 Smugowa Street. After the closing of the schools in the fall of 1941, she taught children in the carpet workshop of the ghetto and later worked in the economic administration department along with her husband, Chaim Waner. Inka Waner Honigman [donor], standing to the left of her mother, was a high-school student and later worked in the ghetto's hat workshop.
People
- Waner, Rachel.
- Honigman, Inka Waner.
Subjects
- Ethnic neighborhoods--Poland--Łódź--1940-1950.
- Employees--Poland--Łódź--1940-1950.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document