Lost Photos of the Warsaw Ghetto Discovered in an Attic

This news story could come straight out of a novel. The WWII Warsaw Ghetto was a part of Warsaw wherein the Nazi Germans forced Warsaw's Jewish population to live. The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought a magnificent battle with the Nazis dying heroically as they put up a tremendous fight, managing to give some of the Nazis their own medicine back.

So now a museum in Poland is arranging an exhibition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the famous Warsaw Ghetto battle. The only photographic documentation in evidence hitherto date have been the ones commissioned by Nazi Germany itself and the organisers didn't really want the Nazi German perspective.

Long story short, some Polish fireman at the time had also secretly taken furtive photos of the battle and a letter from 1968 came to light in which this fireman is mentioned. The fireman in question turned out to have died in 1992.

Here is the twist in the tale ending: the fireman's son is still alive so he hunted through his late father's belongings turning over box after box in the attic until he came to the last box...and there were...



...the negatives of the Warsaw Ghetto taken by his father!

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She soon found his son, Maciej Grzywaczewski, who knew his father had been sent to the ghetto to put out the fires, but knew nothing about any photographs. He began to look through boxes of his father’s possessions stored at his house and his sister’s house, but found nothing. “Then, in the final box, in the final carton inside it, I found them,” he said.

GUARDIAN


Sometimes it seems the hands of the dead, reach out to us, the living.

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