Title
An elderly man being deported from the Lodz ghetto
Medium
35 mm cellulose nitrate negative
Dimensions
Overall (each image): 3.4 x 3.7 cm (1 5/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007
Object Number
2007/1963.27
Description
"Ready for deportation. Each person departing was permitted to take a hand bundle (suitcases were forbidden)." (Source: Photo-caption from "Diary of a Youth in the Ghetto, Lodz 1942," a photo-essay featuring excerpts from the diary of a young person imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto alongside photos taken by Henryk Ross in the ghetto between 1940 and 1944. The photo-essay was published in Israel after 1958.)