unto itself, illicit or clandestine, out of vital necessity. We can find its visual symbol, in contrast to the variety of uniforms, in the rags or tatters that street children wore at the time.”
Photographs from a Jewish school, wedding, and food cultivation show that in spite of the abnormality, ordinary life continued in the ghetto. Mothers took their children for a walk, materials and food were traded. It has daily life, but with dark shadows in the background. An example of this is a series of photographs from a potato field, taken in the autumn of 1941 on the grounds of the former "Skry" Stadium at the cemetery in Okopowa Street, which was used for cultivation of plants. Shortly after the excavations, the stadium was excluded from the ghetto. A few months later, this field was filled with mass graves. [photo 6]
The exhibition "Light of the Negative / Images from the Ringelblum Archive and the Jerzy Lewczyński Archive / Reinterpreted" will be open at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw until 25 August 2019
The exhibition is an element of the Oneg Szabat Program implemented by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, within a public-private partnership.
“Harvesting of potatoes”
photo by Henryk (Jechiel) Bojm (?), Foto-Forbert