As families hugged goodbye and people hastily wrote letters to loved ones, photographer Mendel Grossman captured their final moments in the Łódź ghetto
As families hugged goodbye and people hastily wrote letters to loved ones, photographer Mendel Grossman captured their final moments in the Łódź ghetto. In January 1942, German authorities began deporting Jews from the Łódź ghetto to the Chełmno killing center. By the end of September 1942, they had deported approximately 70,000 Jews from Łódź to Chełmno. Though personal photography was banned in the ghetto, Mendel secretly documented these scenes. Mendel did not survive the Holocaust. After the ghetto's final liquidation in 1944, he was deported to Königs Wusterhausen, a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Mendel likely died on a death march during the camp's evacuation in 1945. Photo: USHMM, courtesy of Leopold Page Photographic Collection #Holocaust #History less
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