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Photographs of Jews Wearing Armbands in Nazi-Occupied Polish Cities - Nine photographs of Jews wearing armbands in Nazi-occupied Polish cities. Early 1940s. Taken by local photographers and German Wehrmacht photographers – some stamped and inscribed on the reverse. Photographs: Jews in Lemberg wearing armbands standing in line at the immigration office, with Nazi flags bearing swastikas visible above the balcony (stamped on verso: foto könig); a Jewish silversmith wearing an armband; Jews with armbands gathered by the Nazis (photographer’s stamp on verso from Dortmund, Germany); a group of Jews at the Lemberg train station – one seated on a stone bench as a nurse or doctor examines his head, with a Nazi soldier in the foreground – annotated and stamped on verso by the photographer: ”Sircouiomo wetziar”; young Jewish women wearing armbands walking past shops marked with a Star of David; and other photographs of Jews with armbands, annotated on the reverse in handwriting: Poln. Jude. Same size: 9×6 cm. Very good condition.