Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs

CultureUnknown
Titles
  • Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs
  • The Nazis Round up the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto
  • The Warsaw Ghetto is no More
Date1943
PlaceWarsaw, Poland
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 3/4 × 8 3/8 in. (14.6 × 21.3 cm)
Sheet: 7 × 9 1/8 in. (17.8 × 23.2 cm)
Frame (outer): 14 3/8 × 17 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (36.6 × 44.2 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2009.28
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Photokunst, Friday Harbor, Washington]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 11, 2012–February 3, 2013.

"Norman Rockwell: American Freedom," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 15, 2019–March 22, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso sheet taped onto back of photo: "Jews rounded up by Nazis in Warsaw / Ghetto."
(SEE ACCESSION FILE for a photocopy of the marks on verso sheet):

Red and black ink stamps on verso with the various dates the image was published.

Paper taped onto the verso sheet: "Picture introduced as evidence at the war crimes trial in Nuremburg, / showing destruction in Warsaw in the spring of 1943. Pictures were / in a report of an SS commander charged with the destruction of Warsaw's Ghetto and ridding the city of Jews."

Newspaper caption attached on verso: "Arthur J. Goldberg, upper right, will be chairman of panel looking into the / extermination of Jews in World War II; Seymour M. Finger will lead the re- / search. At left: Jews in Warsaw being rounded up by Nazi soldiers in 1943."

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