The bodies of emaciated children are piled in a cart before being taken out for burial.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 18493

Overview

Caption: The bodies of emaciated children are piled in a cart before being taken out for burial.
Date: Circa 1942
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale: Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of See Published Source
Event History: One photograph from a published report entitled "Maladie de famine: recherches cliniques sur la famine executees dans le ghetto de Varsovie en 1942" [The Disease of Hunger: Clinical Research on Starvation Undertaken in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942]. The research on the effects of starvation on children and adults was conducted by several Jewish physicians employed in the Berson and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital on Sliska Street in Warsaw. (From 1940-1942 this hospital was located in the small ghetto.) The published report took the form of a series of articles by individual doctors who conducted their research independently. The report, which included photographs and testimonies, was smuggled out of the ghetto in 1942 or 1943. All of the participating physicians, with the exception of the editor Prof. Emil Apfelbaum, perished during the war. Apfelbaum died while the book was in press in 1946.

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: See Published Source
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Source Record ID: Poland 1939-45: Warsaw 002 255
Published Source: Maladie de famine: recherches cliniques sur la famine...dans le ghetto de Varsovie - Apfelbaum, Emil (ed.) - American Joint Distribution Committee

Keyword: CARTS/WAGONS CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH CORPSES CORPSES (REMOVAL OF) GHETTO/OCCUPATION JEWS (POLISH) POLICE POLICE (JEWISH) WARSAW
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- WARSAW (Poland) -- Death/Burial -- Collecting the Dead/Death Notices