Wednesday, March 15, 2017

In Boston-Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross


“I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.”
—Henryk Ross

Experience an extraordinary glimpse of life inside the second largest ghetto in German-occupied Europe through the lens of Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross (1910–1991) in “Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross,” opening March 25. More than 200 of Ross’s powerful photographs—secretly taken, carefully hidden and rescued by Ross—are accompanied by artifacts, including Ross’s own identity card, ghetto notices, and an album of contact prints, handcrafted by Ross and shown in its entirety. A moving, intimate visual record of the ghetto’s daily life from its inception in 1940 to its liquidation in 1944, Ross’s photographs bear witness to the Holocaust from the point of view of its victims. Become a member to see it first, March 21–24, before it opens to the public.

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