MeMoMu_FIA_075 A BOOK SALE IN THE LODZ GHETTO _ KUMARI VAIM / WALTER GENEWEIN
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A book sale in the Lodz ghetto. From the collection of color photographs taken in the Lodz ghetto by an Austrian photographer Walter Genewein.
In 1987 someone rummaging in a secondhand bookstore in Vienna came across a set of about 400 color slides. They turned out to be images of the Lodz ghetto, taken by Walter Genewein, the Nazis' chief accountant. After Genewein died, his companion sold the pictures to the bookstore in Vienna. From there, they made their way into the collection of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, and also into Jablonski's movie "Photographer". Genewein must have had his reasons for selecting one view over another and for carefully numbering the images, as if to create a sequence. Kuva vähem
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