Commercial area on Nalewki Street in Warsaw's Jewish quarter. Warsaw, Poland, 1938. Photograph »
Men, women, and children dig defense ditches during the German siege of Warsaw. Poland, September 1939. Photograph »
German forces in the outskirts of Warsaw. In the background of the photograph, the city burns as a result of the German military assault. Warsaw, Poland, September 1939. Photograph »
The Sigismund Monument stands amid rubble in the Polish capital after Germany's Blitzkrieg assault. Warsaw, Poland, 1939. Photograph »
SS men search Jews for weapons. Warsaw, Poland, October or November 1939. Photograph »
In the Warsaw ghetto, Jewish children with bowls of soup. Warsaw, Poland, ca. 1940. Photograph »
Street scene in the Warsaw ghetto. The sign at left announces: "Soup in the courtyard, first floor, apt. 47." Warsaw, Poland, 1940-1941. Photograph »
A Warsaw ghetto resident gives money to two children on a Warsaw ghetto street. Warsaw, Poland, between October 1940 and April 1943. Photograph »
An emaciated child eats in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943. Photograph »
Children eating in the ghetto streets. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943. Photograph »
An emaciated woman sells the compulsory Star of David armbands for Jews. In the background are concert posters; almost all are destroyed. Warsaw ghetto, Poland, September 19, 1941. Photograph »
Entrance to the Warsaw ghetto. The sign states: "Epidemic Quarantine Area: Only Through Traffic is Permitted." Warsaw, Poland, February 1941. Photograph »
Jewish police at a barricaded entrance to the Warsaw ghetto. Poland, February 1941. Photograph »
Polish civilians walk by a section of the wall that separated the Warsaw ghetto from the rest of the city. Warsaw, Poland, 1940–1941. Photograph »
Street vendor sells old Hebrew books. Warsaw ghetto, Poland, February 1941. Photograph »
A Polish policeman searches the bag of a Jewish resident of the ghetto. Warsaw, Poland, February 1941. Photograph »
A Polish policeman checks the papers of a Jewish resident of the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw, Poland, February 1941. Photograph »
A Jewish man attempts to make a living by playing music on a gramophone, which he wheels around in an old baby carriage. Warsaw ghetto, Poland, wartime. Photograph »
A German policeman interrogates a Jewish man accused of trying to smuggle a loaf of bread into the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw, Poland, 1942-1943. Photograph »
The type of "Aryan" identification card which Vladka Meed had used from 1940–1942 on the Aryan side of Warsaw, smuggling arms to Jewish fighters and helping Jews escape from the ghetto. Photograph »
Jews rounded up during the Warsaw ghetto uprising are forced to march to the assembly point for deportation. Warsaw, Poland, April or May 1943. Photograph »
