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
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1942 July 15
- Locale
- Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Litzmannstadt
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jehuda Widawski
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Jehuda WidawskiSource Record ID: Collections: 2005.285
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- LODZ (Poland) -- Death/Burial/Cemeteries
- Record last modified:
- 2010-01-14 00:00:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1162768