Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross displayed at the Museum from February 25 – August 19, 2018. It will be presented next at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
The Museum’s audio guide for this special exhibition, with numbered stops corresponding to specific photographs and artifacts, is presented below.
Stop 1: Introducing Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
Stop 2: Ross Rescues His Work
Stop 3: Secret Technique for Saving Film
Stop 4: Map of the Lodz Ghetto
Stop 5: Documenting Jewish Life in the Ghetto
Stop 6: Nazi Rules and Restrictions
Stop 7: Diary of an Unknown Girl
Stop 8: Forced Labor
Stop 9: The Judenrat and Jewish Police
Stop 10: Henryk and Stefania Ross (Accompanying Video)
Stop 11: Contact Sheets Made by Ross
Stop 12: Starvation in the Lodz Ghetto
Stop 13: Documenting Deportation
Stop 14: Ross Testifies Against Adolf Eichmann (Accompanying Video)
Stop 15: Memory Portraits and Family History