Henryk Ross: Jewish Photographer Who Documented Nazi Atrocities

Henryk Ross (1910 – 1991) was a Polish Jewish photographer employed by the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto during WQorld War II. Ross also managed to document Nazi atrocities, including children digging for scraps of food and large groups of Jews being led to deportation and being loaded into boxcars. As the ghetto was being liquidated in the fall of 1944, Ross buried his photos and negatives, hoping they might survive as a historical record. Many, but far from all, did. He survived as well.
 
Quote: “Henryk Ross of Łódź, Poland was a simple news and sports photographer when German forces invaded his city in 1939. From then on, he survived by taking identity photos and propaganda shots for the Nazi Department of Statistics. While on the job, however, he risked his life to secretly document day-to-day events in the Łódź Jewish ghetto, which eventually included the deportation of its residents to concentration camps.”
 
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Photo of Hendryk Ross testifying at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: Yad Vashem
 
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