Object ID
2012.1.534-537
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Date
1940
Files
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Description
2012.1.534: photograph of a bearded Jewish man wearing a yellow armband.
2012.1.535: photograph of a Jewish man in a heavy coat wearing a yellow armband.
2012.1.536: photograph of a bearded man with cane in left hand, wearing a yellow armband.
2012.1.537: photograph of a man wearing a hat with a cane in his right hand, wearing a yellow armband.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Photographs of Jewish men wearing armbands, bundled up against the extreme cold of the Polish winter in a ghetto or ghettos. These photographs were most often souvenirs taken by German soldiers or cameramen who found these Jews curiosities to be photographed for posterity.
Dimensions
3 1/2 x 2 1/2"
Keywords
armband
Subcollection
Ghettos
Recommended Citation
"Photographs of Jews with Armbands in Polish Ghetto(s)" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.534-537.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1246