Close-up photograph of Ignacy Smolenski, who was shot to death outside the ghetto, near the barbed wire.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 24850

Overview

Caption: Close-up photograph of Ignacy Smolenski, who was shot to death outside the ghetto, near the barbed wire.

Smolenski, who was living outside of Lodz, was shot while trying to return to his wife who was living inside the ghetto. The event was related in the Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto on July, 15th 1942.
Date: 1942 July 15
Locale: Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
Variant Locale: Litzmannstadt
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jehuda Widawski

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jehuda Widawski

Source Record ID: Collections: 2005.285

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS CORPSES GHETTO/OCCUPATION JEWS (POLISH) LODZ SHOOTINGS
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- LODZ (Poland) -- Death/Burial/Cemeteries