Forbidden photos: the Warsaw Ghetto in the summer of 1941

German soldier-radio operator, photographer Willy Georg (Willy Georg) in the summer of 1941, while in Warsaw, illegally made his way into the ghetto and shot four films on his "Watering Can". The fifth film and camera were confiscated by a military patrol during his arrest. Fortunately, the four films hidden in their pockets have survived to this day.

A newspaper salesman at work.

A young Jewish woman in the crowd.

Street booksellers.

A passerby.

A street vendor.

An unconscious man at the window.

A street beggar.

Trade in firewood vrazves.

Old people begging in the street.

A group of women with baskets on the street of the Warsaw ghetto.

An elderly Jew on the street of the Warsaw ghetto.

The corpse of a resident of the Warsaw ghetto, lying on the sidewalk.

Two women selling on the street of the Warsaw ghetto.

An old man begging for alms.

Tea party on the street.

Shoe dealers.

Vegetable market stall in the Warsaw ghetto.

An emaciated man sitting on the sidewalk.

An emaciated child on the sidewalk.

Two children begging on the sidewalk in the Warsaw ghetto.

Tea party on the street of the Warsaw ghetto.

Street vendors of firewood and coal in the Warsaw ghetto.

Elderly Jews.

Group portrait of the Warsaw ghetto residents.

A passerby serves children on the street in the Warsaw ghetto.

Street traffic in the Warsaw ghetto. In the foreground is a horse-drawn hearse and a cyclist.

Keywords: War | History | Photographer | Jews | Warsaw | Ghetto | 40s | World war II

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