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 ...

Before the Holocaust, Lodz was home to the world’s third-largest Jewish community and later became the site of the ...

At the start of World War II, the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, Poland, had a population of 160,000. By the end of the war, it was 877. One of the few survivors was Henryk Ross, a former photojournalist who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have I stayed long enough? Have I paid enough attention? Was I moved? What am I feeling? Did I like it? And if I haven’t liked it, is it still good? These are the sorts of questions that can occupy my ...

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 ...