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Ghetto school children holding small pails and cups wait in line outside the ghetto soup kitchen.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 74514A
Ghetto school children holding small pails and cups wait in line outside the ghetto soup kitchen. Original German caption: "Schuljugend" (school children), #146. Among those pictured is Aleksander Henryk Laks (b. Chaim Cale in 1928), standing below the central pane of the left window, and Sam Pakin (b. Szlamek Pakin), to his left, holding two pails. Leon Lewkowicz is the seventh from the right with the checkered coat and beret.

Ghetto school children holding small pails and cups wait in line outside the ghetto soup kitchen.

Original German caption: "Schuljugend" (school children), #146.

Among those pictured is Aleksander Henryk Laks (b. Chaim Cale in 1928), standing below the central pane of the left window, and Sam Pakin (b. Szlamek Pakin), to his left, holding two pails. Leon Lewkowicz is the seventh from the right with the checkered coat and beret.

Photographer
Walter Genewein
Date
1940 - 1944
Locale
Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
Variant Locale
Litzmannstadt
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- LODZ (Poland) -- Children/Youth -- General
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: 146
 
Record last modified: 2014-03-24 00:00:00
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