An elderly Jew holding a package and a cane walks along a commercial street in the Warsaw ghetto.
- Photographer
- Heinrich Joest
- Date
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1941 September 19
- Locale
- Warsaw, Poland
- Variant Locale
- Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau - Photo Designation
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GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- WARSAW (Poland) -- Daily Life/Street Scenes -- Street Portraits
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Guenther Schwarberg
An elderly Jew holding a package and a cane walks along a commercial street in the Warsaw ghetto.
Joest's original caption reads: "It struck me like an image out of the Old Testament--this old man with a small bundle in his arm, walking towards certain death."
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Record last modified: 2004-05-10 00:00:00
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