Museum Exhibit

The Power of Photography: Memory Unearthed, The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross

The Power of Photography: Memory Unearthed, The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross

  The special exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Memory Unearthed, The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross, is quite amazing. Henry took photographs of life in the ghetto as he was required for Nazi propaganda. But he also risked his life by bravely photographing the deplorable conditions of the ghetto and the.deportation of the Jewish people. He managed to sneak into the train station in guise of a cleaner and shot photos through a hole in a board of the wall of the store room. He shot groups of residents, who were told they were being transferred to work camps. being boarded...

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