Overview
- Photographer
- Walter Genewein
- Date
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1940 - 1944
- Locale
- Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Litzmannstadt
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Abrams
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Robert AbramsSource Record ID: 164
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875-1947) was Treasurer of the Nazi Party. Schwarz was born and educated to a high school level in Guenzburg. Serving as a military clerk and a municipal official in Munich before serving in World War I, Schwarz joined the Nazi Party in 1922. He was part of the Old Guard from Hitler's early days in Munich. By 1925 he assumed his role as National Treasurer of the Nazi Party. Elected to the Reichstag as a representative of Franconia in 1933, Schwarz was named a Reich Leader in 1935. Honored with the rank of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer in 1943, Schwarz died in an internment camp in 1947. He was posthumously classified as a Major Offender by a Munich de-Nazification court in 1948.
[Source: Wistrich, Robert. "Who's Who in Nazi Germany." Routledge, 1995.]
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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