IMAGES FROM THE LODZ GHETTO

Reliving a Horror to Decipher an Enigma - Thomas Weber
Sixty years ago Helen Aronson stepped out of her hideout in the Lodz Ghetto - the Holocaust's second largest. On Sunday she was at the National Portrait Gallery in London to see, for the first time, the recently discovered Ross Collection, the most extensive and important record of the Holocaust by any single photographer. Henryk Ross (1910-91), an official Jewish photographer in the ghetto, also secretly recorded its suffering. After the war, while he made some of his photos available for use in the Eichmann trial and in Holocaust museums, we never saw the great majority of Ross's pictures during his lifetime. (Wall Street Journal)

See also Images from the Lodz Ghetto Album - a slide show (New York Times)

See also "I Will Never Forget These Scenes" - Janina StrukThe Nazis at Auschwitz were obsessed with documenting their war crimes and Wilhelm Brasse, now 87, was one of a group of prisoners forced to take photographs for them. (Guardian-UK)