Documentation of Atrocities: The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross




This video is part of the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. For more videos and teaching aids, visit: http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/video/index.asp

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

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Film produced by Mikooka Productions – http://www.mikooka.com.

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21 responses to “Documentation of Atrocities: The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross”

  1. I look at Israel full of culture and beauty growing daily and I look at Germany misery then and more misery to come, when you go too Germany the tour guides tell you not to try and joke with the locals they get angry a stark contrast in people I know where I want to be…🌷🇮🇱

  2. My prayers go out to these people who died in the Holocaust, whether they would be Jewish or non-Jewish people. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  3. 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.

  4. 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 away?…..we can't assume anything.

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