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Henryk Ross

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Polish-born Israeli photographer and Holocaust survivor (1910-1991)

ArtistsLived 1910 to 1991 · aged 81
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Henryk Ross was a Polish Jewish photographer known for his official and clandestine photographs of the Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust. Employed by the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council, he used his position to document scenes of daily life, hunger, deportations, and violence in the ghetto.

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Henryk Ross was a Polish Jewish photographer known for his official and clandestine photographs of the Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust. Employed by the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council, he used his position to document scenes of daily life, hunger, deportations, and violence in the ghetto. Before the ghetto’s liquidation, he buried thousands of negatives, about half of which survived after liberation.

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deceased
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Lived 1910 to 1991 · aged 81
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