Images found in attic taken by Polish firefighter who risked life to record how Jewish Poles fought the Nazis despite impossible odds
The photographs are blurry, composed hastily and taken surreptitiously, sometimes with heads or objects in the foreground obscuring part of the view.
The best known photographic record of the uprising comprises around 50 photographs taken for the so-called Stroop Report, prepared by general Jürgen Stroop for the SS chief Heinrich Himmler. There was also a tantalising clue: “The negatives are still in Leszek’s hands. Any additional information can also be obtained from him. As long as he’s alive, of course.”Curious about the negatives and whether the firefighter who took them had taken more pictures, Schnepf-Kołacz began looking for Grzywaczewski, but found he had died in 1992.
Around 260,000 were deported from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp and murdered. After mass deportations in 1942, those remaining inside the ghetto began to make preparations for an uprising, smuggling in weapons and explosives.Photograph: Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski/AFP/Getty Images Leszek Grzywaczewski’s photographs do not show fighting, but they do show burning buildings, as well as Jewish people being marched out of the ghetto by German guards.
Thousands died in the fires, while most of those who survived the uprising were sent to Treblinka and killed.
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