Gravediggers unload bodies from a cart into a mass grave in the Warsaw ghetto 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
Gravediggers unload bodies from a cart into a mass grave in the Warsaw ghetto cemetery.
Joest's caption reads: "The corpse-carriers took the naked bodies from the cart and threw them into the grave. For this work they wore rubber-gloves, which I first thought were made out of wood."
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Record last modified: 2004-02-13 00:00:00
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