A destitute mother holding her child begs on a 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) -- Children -- Destitution/Foraging
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Guenther Schwarberg
A destitute mother holding her child begs on a street in the Warsaw ghetto.
Joest's original caption reads: "With a gesture of her bandaged hand this woman wanted to show me that her child had nothing to eat. She wore a headscarf wrapped in a blanket but had no shoes."
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Record last modified: 2005-08-09 00:00:00
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