United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Photograph


Jews captured by German troops during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in April-May 1943.  This photograph appeared in the Stroop Report, an album compiled by SS Major General Juergen Stroop, commander of German forces that suppressed the Warsaw ghetto uprising.  The album was introduced as evidence at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.  In the decades since the trial this photo has become one of the iconographic images of the Holocaust.

Jews captured by German troops during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in April-May 1943. This photograph appeared in the Stroop Report, an album compiled by SS Major General Juergen Stroop, commander of German forces that suppressed the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The album was introduced as evidence at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. In the decades since the trial this photo has become one of the iconographic images of the Holocaust.

— National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.


Referenced in the following Holocaust Encyclopedia article(s):

The German Military and the Holocaust »
The Icons of Memory »
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising »