Artist
Unknown
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)
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
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
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."
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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