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An elderly man being deported from the Lodz ghetto

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© Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Overview
    Title
    An elderly man being deported from the Lodz ghetto
    Date
    1942
    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
    Type of object
    Negative
    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.)

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