Art and designהנריק רוס
Henryk Ross
Henryk Ross was a Polish Jewish photographer who documented life and Nazi crimes in the Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust.
1910 to 1991Photographing the Łódź GhettoHiding his negatives undergroundTestimony at the Eichmann trial
- Born
- 1 May 1910, Warsaw
- Died
- 1 May 1991, Israel
- Occupation
- photographer
Henryk Ross was born in 1910 in Warsaw
Henryk Ross was born in Warsaw in 1910. Before World War II he worked as a sports photographer for a Warsaw newspaper.
From 1940 he worked as a photographer for the Department of Statistics of the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto. His duties included identity photos. He built a stage that let him shoot up to 12 people on one negative, which saved film for secret work.
His secret photos showed daily life, community celebrations, children searching for food, public hangings and deportations. In the fall of 1944, as the ghetto was liquidated, he buried his photos and negatives in a box. He stayed in the ghetto with a group of Jews left to clean it and survived until the Red Army arrived in January 1945.
After liberation he dug up the box. Water damaged much of the material, but about half of his 6,000 images survived.
In 1950 Ross emigrated to Israel, and in 1961 he testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. He died in 1991.
Henryk Ross's life in 9 milestones
- 1910
Born in Warsaw.
- 1940
Began work as a photographer for the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto.
- 1944
Buried his photos and negatives as the ghetto was liquidated.
- 1945
Recovered the buried box after the Red Army liberated Łódź.
- 1950
Emigrated to Israel.
- 1961
Testified at the Eichmann trial.
- 1991
Died.
- 2004
His photos appeared in the book Lodz Ghetto Album.
- 2021
48 of his prints were given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Based on English Wikipedia, Henryk Ross and Hebrew Wikipedia, הנריק רוס, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The facts are Wikidata's.
Photograph: Courtesy of Israel Government Press Office, Public domain