An exhibit of unearthed photographs is offering a heartbreaking glimpse into an unforgivable part of our past. With Chip Reid, we uncover it again: Krysia Rosenstein speaks of a childhood of ...
Henryk Ross, “Lodz Ghetto residents” (Spring 1940–December 1941), 100 modern Chromira prints from original 35 mm negatives Installation view (photograph by the author) BOSTON — What does it look like ...
During the Holocaust, Jews found innovative ways to maintain religious observance. From whispering Sabbath prayers at Auschwitz to carving potato menorahs at Bergen-Belsen, stories of risk and ...
Of the 250,000 Jews who resided in Lodz before the war, and the tens of thousands who were sent here from all parts of occupied Europe, only 800 survive, the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic ...
Henrik Ross’s camera helped him survive the Holocaust. As an “official” photographer of the Lodz ghetto, he took photos for Jewish identification cards, and documented scenes the Nazis would use to ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
LODZ, PolandLODZ, Poland — Aged Holocaust survivors commemorated the 65th anniversary of the last deportations from the Lodz ghetto to Nazi death camps on Thursday, and Poland’s president recalled ...
Lodz Ghetto prisoner’s photos depicting brutal life donated to Boston museum Henryk Ross risked his life to take pictures detailing conditions in ghetto where thousands died of starvation, illness and ...
Almost 73 years ago, on March 21, 1942, Stefan Prager wrote a postcard from Sweden to his parents, who had been deported from their native Berlin to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. He wrote about his ...
The most iconic images of the Holocaust are seared into our collective unconscious - Jews being hunted, and dispatched like animals. But these rarer photos, too, represent the Holocaust—and the short ...
The images are joyful and terrifying, playful and bleak, hopeful and tragic. They were taken in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust by a photographer who repeatedly risked his life to document what ...