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The Ghetto, the Nazis and One Small Boy

As Joseph Berger reports, it is possible to know a lot about this photograph without ever answering the question: who was this boy?

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/the-ghetto-the-nazis-and-one-small-boy/

“This photograph of the most dramatic event of the Holocaust requires a greater level of responsibility from historians than almost any other,” Dr. Dobroszycki said, “It is too holy to let people do with it what they want.”

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