Photograph of two men in the Łódź ghetto
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Aliza Ziegler
The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Aliza Ziegler.
Scope and Content
The photograph depicts two mailmen wearing suits standing near the entrance of a building on a sidewalk in the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź, Poland). Both men are wearing armands and Star of David badges. The man on the right is Yeshayahu Sewek Krotoszynski (b. 1923). He survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and escaped from a death march in January 1945.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.
People
- Krotoshinski, Sevek.
Subjects
- Ethnic neighborhoods--Poland--Łódź--1940-1950.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
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