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Mass deportation, residents boarding freight wagons to Auschwitz at the Radogoszcz station

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  • Overview
    Title
    Mass deportation, residents boarding freight wagons to Auschwitz at the Radogoszcz station
    Date
    August 1944
    Medium
    half-tone positive on polyester film base with spray painted verso
    Dimensions
    Overall: 31 x 40 cm (12 3/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
    Credit Line
    Gift from Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007
    Object Number
    2007/2466.1
    Type of object
    Photomechanical Transparency
    Description

    "Radogoszcz station from which ghetto Jews were transported to concentration camps, was situated outside the boundaries of the Lodz ghetto. The right to entry was only for workers at the station. I stole into the station with a group of railway workers. I was locked in a store from where I was able to, through a hole in the wood, photograph this deportation." -Henryk Ross

  • Extended Label
    Ross sometimes strategically concealed himself to photograph scenes of deportation. To capture this image, he hid in a storeroom in the Radogoszcz station, where Jews boarded trains bound for the Auschwitz death camp.
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