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Five Photographs of Jews in the Ghettos of Poland - Five photographs of Jews in the ghettos of Poland during the Nazi occupation. Early 1940s. Photographs: Photograph inscribed on the reverse: Zwei typische Ostjuden vor den Ruinen ihres Hauses – Tomaszów, Januar 1940 – “Two Typical Eastern European Jews in Front of the Ruins of Their Home – Tomaszów, January 1940.” A member of the Nazi SA security forces stands in the middle of the street while two children polish his boots. On the right, two additional boys stand watching the scene. Galizische Juden – “Galician Jews” (Lublin District administration) standing beside a wooden door bearing a sign in German: FLACHS u. HANF ERFASSUNG IN DISTRIKT LUBLIN – FRANZ WEIS LUBLIN / ZWEIGSTELLE TARNOGRÓD – “Flax and Hemp Collection Center in the Lublin District – Franz Weis, Lublin / Tarnogród Branch.” A uniformed German soldier with a group of observant Jews of various ages in traditional dress in an open field. Foto Wisniewsky Langenbielau (Langenbielau – today Bielawa in Lower Silesia, Poland). Later in the war, a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp operated in this area. During the early stages of the occupation, German soldiers photographed themselves in encounters with traditional Jewish communities in the region. An elderly Jewish man on a street in a ghetto in Poland, with a white cloth bandage wrapped around his head as a result of physical abuse by SS soldiers. Same size: approx. 9×7 cm. Very good condition.