A table decorated with plants and food for a celebration [probably of the birthday of Hans Biebow, the German head of the Lodz ghetto administration].

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 65743

Overview

Caption: A table decorated with plants and food for a celebration [probably of the birthday of Hans Biebow, the German head of the Lodz ghetto administration].
Photographer: Walter Genewein
Date: 1942
Locale: Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
Variant Locale: Litzmannstadt
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Abrams

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Robert Abrams

Source Record ID: 1047

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.