Photography and the Holocaust: Then and Now -Table of Contents

Robert Hirsch, theme editor,  is a photo-base artist, curator, educator, historian. Hirsch’s work has been exhibited in over 200 international solo and group shows plus he has curated innumerable exhibitions.

Theme Table of Content

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Origins of the Holocaust and Photography’s Role in its Interpretation

This thread assesses how photographs are an element in a larger systemic universe, deriving from multiple personal and community economic/political/psychological/social and technical perspectives…

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Nazi Photographic Perspectives

This thread examines the perspective of a few select Nazi photographers and those in their service who made personal and official documents of what they saw happening around the ghettos and concentration camps

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 Jewish Photographic Perspectives Part 1

This essay explores two Jewish photographers, Roman Vishniac and Mendel Grossman, who made pictures of Jewish and resistance life and death leading up to and during the Holocaust.

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 Jewish Photographic Perspectives Part 2

This essay explores the photographic work of Faye Schulman, Francisco Boix, and the Sonderkommando whose photographs speak to resistance to the Holocaust.

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Henryk Ross: The Łódź Ghetto Photographs

 Jewish Photographic Perspectives, Part 3

This is the first of two essays exploring the photographic activities of Henryk Ross (1910-1991) who documented living inside the Łódź Ghetto (pronounced “Lawch”) from 1940 to 1944.

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Jewish Photographic Perspectives, Part 3
Henryk Ross: The Łódź Ghetto Photographs

This second of two essays continues to explore the photographic activities of Henryk Ross (1910-1991) who documented living inside the Łódź Ghetto (pronounced “Lawch”) from 1940 to 1944.

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Part 7: “Liberation”

This essay examines the role photography has played in shaping a public Holocaust narrative following the arrival of Soviet and Allied forces at the Nazi work and death camps.

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Part 8:
“Aftermath: The Nuremberg Trials”

This essay examines the role photography has played in shaping a public Holocaust narrative following the arrival of Soviet and Allied forces at the Nazi work and death camps.

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Part 9:
AFTERMATH: Displaced Persons (DP) camps, Immigration and Emigration

This essay continues to examine the role photography has played in shaping a public Holocaust narrative following the arrival of Soviet and Allied forces at the Nazi work and death camps.

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