Photos: New photographs of Warsaw Ghetto found in family collection
This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski negative shows houses that were abandoned by the Jewish population as they were evacuated being set on fire during the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Poland. On Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, Warsaw’s Jewish history museum presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were recently discovered in a family collection.
This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski negative shows jewish people being evacuated from the Ghetto to Umschlagplatz during the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Poland. On Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, Warsaw’s Jewish history museum presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were recently discovered in a family collection.
This undated handout negative taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski negative shows the ghetto of Warsaw during the uprising of 1943, in Warsaw, Poland. On Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, Warsaw’s Jewish history museum presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were recently discovered in a family collection.
This undated handout negative taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski negative shows the ghetto of Warsaw during the uprising of 1943, in Warsaw, Poland. On Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, Warsaw’s Jewish history museum presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were recently discovered in a family collection.
The recently discovered photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a Polish firefighter as the Nazi Germans were brutally crushing the uprising of 1943.