Documentation of Atrocities: The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross

In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs", ISHS staff member Franziska Reiniger discusses how you can explore Holocaust photography with your students. Introducing some general points to keep in mind when teaching using any photograph from the Holocaust, Ms. Reiniger then proceeds with two examples, demonstrating the remarkable differences we find in photographs taken from different points of view. The graphical elements within a photograph sometimes hint at the external circumstances surrounding the time and place when the photograph was taken, and be studying both we deepen our understanding of the Holocaust. The photographs discussed in this video are available for viewing and for downloading from our website.

Franziska Reiniger is a staff member at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.

Part 1: Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs
Part 2: Photographs as Propaganda
part 3: Documentation of Atrocities: The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross
Archival footage and photographs:

Yad Vashem Photo Archive.
Yad Vashem Film Archive.
Yad Vashem Museum Collection
The Yad Vashem Visual Center
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Agentur Karl Höffkes
Bundesfilmarchiv/Transit Film GmbH.

Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Israel / Photo Archive

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Material from:

Lodz Ghetto Album: The photographs of Henryk Ross, Archive of Modern Conflict & Chris Boot, Ltd, London, 2004. Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Film segments:

Memories of the Eichmann Trial, Director: David Perlov (1979, Israel). Produced by: Israel Broadcasting Authority- Channel 1 Restoration (2011) produced by Yad Vashem – The Visual Center, Producers: Yael Perlov, Liat Benhabib With the support of the Forum for the Preservation of Audio-Visual Memory in Israel

Eichmann Trial testimony - Israel State Archives

[garyallen]

What a very brave and courageous man, to walk around with that camera. Demonstrating- "where there's a will, theres a way..." This man is a true hero!! May God bless his soul....🕊🕊🕊

[alanmartin]

By standing up for people who have no voice is the only respect we can show our brothers and sisters who were forced to bear such Terrible torture that words are not enough to describe it.

[Damo_T]

My grandmothers sister and her father were murdered by the Nazis in what's now Croatia my grandmothers father was shot in the head along with other men and put into a house and the Nazis set it on fire my grandmothers sister was gunned down in a field were they where running from the gun fire my grandmother tells me when she was hiding like a rabbit in the bushes she saw her sister be shot down in front of her eyes my grandmother then went onto marry a German partisan my mother and grandmother fled what was Yugoslavia at the time and moved to Australia where my mum met my dad and here I am writing this. There were many atrocities during World war one and two we need to be careful we do not repeat such things from happening. I'm unsure of what happened to my grandfather as he was fighting the Nazis and then met my grandmother and they seperated she does not like to talk about this

[cuteoldguy]

I'm an old man, I was 8 when the war ended .I want to make a comment but I just don't know how to express my horror that some perpetrators are still alive .

[redtobertshateshandles]

Obviously deeply troubling images, but important to counter the holocaust deniers.

[playinragz]

That’s absolutely amazing! This man risks everything to show the world.

[penfloyd]

Wonderful knew the his story had to be

[freespeechforall]

Shame on all those who stood by and let it happen.

[sandybiltz]

Let us remember this brutal actions against our fellow people, so that we Never repeat this form of austerity!!!

[johnsakowicz]

Amidah: This was the prayer of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust.

The Amidah (Hebrew: תפילת העמידה‎, Tefilat HaAmidah, "The Standing Prayer"), also called the Shmoneh Esreh (שמנה עשרה‎, "The Eighteen", in reference to the original number of constituent blessings: there are now nineteen), is the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy.

[gyverebes]

Documents, about the life...teaching..tragic..

[MrRichymil]

It's a small thing but isn't the place name pronounced 'Woodch?'

[angelinapingitore]

Lesson worship "Man" Worship GOD/LOVE

[jennfaire]

Please some photographs of dresden germany

[nonenone]

Why should we assume the photographer is "really" proud of what they did if a photograph is kept in a personal collection? Why not assume that they were minimally proud, but just above the borderline of caring enough to not throw them can't assume anything.