An undertaker in the Warsaw ghetto's Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street lifts the body of a woman for Heinrich Joest to show him how little it weighs.
- 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 -- Collecting the Dead/Death Notices
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Guenther Schwarberg
An undertaker in the Warsaw ghetto's Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street lifts the body of a woman for Heinrich Joest to show him how little it weighs.
Joest's caption reads: "The dead were not heavy, as one corpse-bearer showed me - although I had not asked him to - in front of the buildings of the Jewish cemetery."
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