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Jewish Ghetto in Poland
October 1940
A street in the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland.
Jewish Ghetto, established by Germans in occupied Poland
October 1940
Children and adults in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlovwisc, Poland, posing for American journalist Alvin Steinkopf.
Ghetto Street Scene
1940
Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion.
Jewish Ghetto in Poland
October 1940
A street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland. In his scrapbook, journalist Alvin Steinkopf, who took the picture, noted that conditions were filthy.
Nazi Surveillance
October 1940
Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf about one year after the Ge...
Quarantine Fence
1940
A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had not been built.
