GHETTOS OF NAZI-OCCUPIED POLAND: Images of War

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives covering ghettoization, life and liquidisation in the ghettos, the Warsaw Uprising the Polish ghettos and Reserve Police Battalion 101. Following the 1940 invasion of Poland, the Nazis established ghettos in cities and towns across the country with the initial aim of segregating and isolating the Jewish community. These closed sectors were referred to as Judischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden (Jewish Quarters). Using contemporary images this well researched and inevitably harrowing book shows the harsh and deteriorating conditions of daily life in these restricted areas including brutality by SS troops and humiliating marches and searches and mass shootings of women and children stripped naked, and Jewish outdoor markets to sell off books, furniture and clothing for food to survive in the Lodz ghetto. In reality the ghettos were holding areas prior to the transportation to concentration, extermination and work camps, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau and Belzec. Aware of their imminent fate including the threat of family separation, enslavement and death, underground resistance groups sprung up and promoted numerous uprisings which were brutally and callously suppressed. The Nazis' ultimate aim was the liquidation of the ghettos and the extermination of their inhabitants in furtherance of The Final Solution. Hundreds of archive photos, some sepia or colourised, many disturbing. Paperback, 19 x 24.5cm, 128 pages.