[Probably, an SD officer walking among Polish and Jewish civilians interned in a temporary holding center.]

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 19366

Overview

Caption: [Probably, an SD officer walking among Polish and Jewish civilians interned in a temporary holding center.]

These prisoners may be what the Germans called "Wehrfaehige", or persons capable of carrying arms, who were summarily interned during and immediately after the Polish campaign as a security measure.

One image of Einsatzgruppen activities in Poland in 1939, found by Joseph Igra after the war, in a an album in an apartment in Sosnowiec.
Date: Circa September 1939
Locale: Poland?
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jacob Igra

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jacob Igra

Source Record ID: Collections: 2007.85

Keyword: BICYCLES CONCENTRATION CAMPS INTERNMENT CAMPS JEWS (POLISH) POLES SD/SIPO/GESTAPO
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Poland -- GENERAL -- Aktionen -- Unidentified