Boy with Hands Raised, Warsaw, Poland
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With Your Students
Date
April 1943
Description
This item is a photograph depicting a group of Jewish civilians consisting primarily of women and children with their hands raised being led out of a bunker by SS men. The only identified person in this photo is SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche, a war criminal and member of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), who can be seen on the right side of the photo, wearing a tie and dust goggles and holding a submachine gun. The original caption of the photograph states: Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern Hervorgeholt. [Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs.] It comes from the report "Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!" [The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw is No More!] prepared by SS commander Jürgen Stroop. The photo gained notoriety after the Stroop Report was used as evidence by U.S. chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson in the Nuremberg Trials.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, World War II
Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Identifer
118572049
Source
National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records
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