Henryk Chęciński photograph collection

Identifier
irn531137
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.397.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Henryk Chęciński (1915-1944) was an amateur photographer from Warsaw, Poland. He was arrested during a random round up around 1941-1942. He was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and later transferred to the Gusen subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp where he was killed.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Andrzej Chęciński In Memory of his Uncle Henryk Chęciński

The Henryk Chęciński photograph collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Andrzej Chęciński in 2016. Andrzej is the nephew of Henryk Chęciński.

Scope and Content

The collection contains 45 photographs taken by amateur photographer Henryk Chęciński in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, circa 1939-1940. Subjects include bombed buildings, makeshift graves, German soldiers, Polish soldiers, German soldiers marching groups of Jewish men in the street, three hanging men in front of a crowd, and people in the street.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as two folders.

People

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.