He shot four roll of film, but his camera got confiscated whilst he was photographing the fifth roll. June 1942. While the ghetto’s Jewish leadership decided to immortalize its positive activities in pictures, the Germans used their cameras to document the harsh reality of life in the ghetto. Stroop, commander of German forces that suppressed the Warsaw ghetto uprising, compiled an album of photographs and other materials. • Franz Konrad, who as head of the ghetto’s confiscation division was in charge of all items left behind by Warsaw’s Jews transported to Warsaw. Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto. SS General Jürgen Stroop lost 12 men that day. This gave rise to a network of food and medicine smuggling, with both Poles and Germans accepting bribes in order to make it happen. Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images. Starving children in front of a Jewish shop (labeled with the Star of David). After this survey of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, have a look at 44 heartrending Holocaust photo s that reveal the tragedy and perseverance of history's worst genocide. Over time, some of the pictures taken by soldiers have become “standard” photos of the ghetto, which is what happened to the more than 150 photos taken by the soldier Heinz Jost in the ghetto over the course of several days in 1941. SS soldiers searching a Jewish man. The photo credit reads: “A personal photograph taken by an unidentified German.” German SS man Heinz Jost is credited with several hard-to-look-at photos, including one of a Jewish boy lying on the ground in the Warsaw Ghetto. In addition to the official pictures taken by German crews in the ghettos, inquisitive soldiers entered the Warsaw ghetto to photograph the foreign world inside, something that has been called “ghetto tourism.” 17 This term was used by Adam Czerniakow, the first head of the Warsaw ghetto's Judenrat, in his diary when he referred to Wehrmacht tourists who were taken on guided tours around the ghetto. Jews captured by Nazis during suppression of the uprising. 1942. A man holds up the emaciated body of a baby that recently died of starvation. All of the photos were taken outdoors and they depict all of the things that the Judenrat’s pictures did not: the suffering and difficult conditions in the ghetto. Greetings from Warsaw, Poland. March 1940. Beginning in July 1942, the German occupiers started shipping some 5,000 Warsaw inhabitants a day to concentration camps. The photographs shown here were taken by a soldier who served in a supply unit for the German Air Force in the Warsaw region. Besieged by Nazi Germany’s behemoth war machine, Warsaw didn't take long to fall to the Third Reich. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, the armed Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB) had 500 members, while the Jewish Military Union (Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy; ZZW) had another 250. Find the perfect Warsaw Ghetto Uprising stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. A pile of dead bodies photographed during the post-war cleanup. This indispensable document has since been named the “Oneg Shabbat.". And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Warsaw ghetto remains one of the darkest examples of Nazi Germany’s cruel, calculated efforts to first contain Europe’s Jewish populations and then eliminate them entirely. Starving Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto. A girl and a woman begging in the street. In addition to the official photographers who came to the ghetto to shoot news and propaganda photos, there was also a widespread phenomenon of “soldier tourists” in the ghetto. 1942. 1939. Wikimedia CommonsJews being rounded up by German police forces and sent to labor camps. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images. The ghetto’s estimated population soon reached more than 400,000 due to an influx of Jewish Poles from nearby towns forced into Warsaw by Nazi regulations. A Jewish woman struggling to survive in the ghetto. All able-bodied Jews were to be shipped to the Nazis' Lublin camp. Nonetheless, the footage that did survive has become a priceless primary source of life in the Warsaw ghetto and the horrific German policies that shaped it. Joe J. Heydecker/Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images. While the Jews successfully engaged in chaotic, sporadic attacks from their bunkers, it didn’t last long and the Nazis reduced the ghetto nearly to rubble. Distribution of bread in the ghetto. The SS then modified its approach by the third day and simply began razing buildings to the ground to remove hiding spots and bring resistance fighters to the streets. I would like to invite members of this group to join the online campaign this April 19th. Children on the street inside the Warsaw ghetto. 1941. This was less than six percent of the population that had been there before World War II.