Łódź Ghetto photographs

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.244

Overview

Description: Consists of 34 photographs taken in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1943; includes photographs of Jews moving into the ghetto, of barbed wire fences separating roads, of various street signs regarding Jews, of Jews being inspected, and of the commercial district of the city before the establishment of the ghetto.
Date: 1939-1943

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Frank Morgens (Mieczyslaw Morgenstern) donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 3, 1997. They were found in his apartment in Łódź after the liberation, presumably left by a German soldier who was billeted in the apartment. Sylvia Karchmar completed the paperwork for her father, the late Frank Morgens.