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Display panel from a photo exhibition on the Holocaust entitled, "What Were Their Sins?" created by photographer George Kaddishin a displaced persons' camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 66305
Display panel from a photo exhibition on the Holocaust entitled, "What Were Their Sins?" created by photographer George Kaddishin a displaced persons' camp. The exhibition consisted both of photographs that he shot in the Kovno ghetto as well as other photographs he collected from other ghettos and camps.

Display panel from a photo exhibition on the Holocaust entitled, "What Were Their Sins?" created by photographer George Kaddishin a displaced persons' camp.

The exhibition consisted both of photographs that he shot in the Kovno ghetto as well as other photographs he collected from other ghettos and camps.

Date
1946
Locale
Germany
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Landsberg -- Cultural/Religious Life
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jay Rostov

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Biography
George Kadish (Hirsh Kadushin) taught science at a Hebrew high school in Kovno before the war. The first violent attacks against Kovno's Jews in June and July, 1941 moved Kadish, an avid amateur photographer, to document the community's ordeals. He secretly photographed over 1,000 images of ghetto life, sometimes even snapping pictures with a hidden camera through the buttonhole of his overcoat. In the x-ray department of the hospital where he was assigned to work, he bartered for film and developed his negatives. He then smuggled them out in a set of crutches. In late March, 1944 Kadish learned that the Gestapo, hearing of his photographic endeavor, was searching for him. Kadish fled the ghetto and went into hiding. He photographed the burning of the ghetto from the Aryan side. Following the liberation, he returned to the ghetto area. He photographed its remains, and dug up his prints and negatives that he had buried in milk cans beneath his house. Kadish moved to the United States and lived there until his death in August, 1997.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Jay Rostov
Source Record ID: Collections: 2003.138
 
Record last modified: 2006-06-22 00:00:00
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