‘I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.’ The photographs of Henryk Ross. – The Washington Post

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Perspective | ‘I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.’ The photographs of Henryk Ross.

At great personal danger, Ross documented the cruel truth of life under Nazi rule.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/03/06/i-buried-my-negatives-in-the-ground-in-order-that-there-should-be-some-record-of-our-tragedy-henryk-ross/

Officially, former Polish press photojournalist Henryk Ross was forced to work by the Nazi regime as a bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration’s statistics department. He took photographs for Jewish identification cards, as well as images used as propaganda for the Lodz Ghetto. Ross was one of at least 160,000 people held in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, second only to the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Europe.