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Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski is driven in a horse-drawn carriage through a street of the Lodz ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 95067A
Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski is driven in a horse-drawn carriage through a street of the Lodz ghetto. Original German caption: "Judenaeltester" (Jewish elder) #142.

Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski is driven in a horse-drawn carriage through a street of the Lodz ghetto.

Original German caption: "Judenaeltester" (Jewish elder) #142.

Photographer
Walter Genewein
Date
1940 - 1944
Locale
Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
Variant Locale
Litzmannstadt
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- LODZ (Poland) -- Ghetto Administration -- Jewish Council/Offices -- Rumkowski
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Abrams

About This Photograph

Biography
Walter Genewein (5/4/1901-1974) was born in Austria. He joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and was given the post of head of the Lodz ghetto economy serving under Hans Biebow. Genewein was also an avid amateur photographer who took color slides of the ghetto and the surrounding area.

The bulk of his collection is owned by the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, but a second collection of his photographs were uncovered in the United States in the estate of an American GI who found them in Bremen.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Robert Abrams
Source Record ID: 142
 
Record last modified: 2004-05-17 00:00:00
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