Lodz ghetto photographs document horror of a genocide
Residents hoped that work would save them; Slavery through fear
An exhibition in the Nazi Documentation Center in Cologne shows photographs from Lodz - the second-largest ghetto for Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. The photographers were themselves prisoners.
The room is somber, and large-format photographs hang on the temporary walls: children building a snowman, women tidying living rooms, a wedding party looking happily into the camera.
These are images of everyday life in the Lodz Ghetto, known in German as “Ghetto Litzmannstadt.”
The exhibition, on display at the Nazi Documentation Center in Cologne until September 4, marks the 70th anniversary of the start of deportations of Jews to the second largest ghetto in Poland.
