Workers roll up coils of straw in the straw shoe factory of the Lodz ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 95198B

Photographer: Walter Genewein
Date: 1940 - 1944
Variant Locale: Litzmannstadt
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- LODZ (Poland) -- Labor: Factories/Workshops -- Shoe Factory
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Abrams

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.
Keyword: BADGES
BADGES (STAR OF DAVID)
FORCED LABOR/BRIGADES
GHETTO/OCCUPATION
INSCRIPTIONS (GENEWEIN)
JEWS (POLISH)
LODZ
SHOES/FOOTWEAR
STRAW
WOMEN
WORKSHOPS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Robert Abrams

Source Record ID: 206
: Record last modified: 2004-05-17 00:00:00
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