An undertaker views a layer of corpses laid out at the bottom of a mass grave in the Okopowa Street cemetery.
- 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) -- Death/Burial -- Cemeteries/Mass Graves/Funerals
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Guenther Schwarberg
An undertaker views a layer of corpses laid out at the bottom of a mass grave in the Okopowa Street cemetery.
Joest's caption reads: "Once again a layer of the dead was finished and now had to be covered with lime. I couldn't believe one pit could have space for so many people."
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Record last modified: 2004-05-10 00:00:00
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