Lodz Ghetto Album

Henryk Ross, born in Poland in 1913, was a press photographer prior to WWII, when by virtue of being Jewish he was incaracerated in the Lodz Ghetto. He became one of its two 'official' photographers. When the Nazis began to remove all ghetto inhabitants to the death camps in 1944, Ross buried his negatives and archives. One of Lodz's 5000 survivors, Ross returned after liberation to recover his negatives, and with the help of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, managed to get them away from Russian custody to Israel.