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(In photomontage with synagogue in ruins) Boy in cap, with satchel and sack tied to back, walking with winter deportation crowd - side-profile

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  • Overview
    Title
    (In photomontage with synagogue in ruins) Boy in cap, with satchel and sack tied to back, walking with winter deportation crowd - side-profile
    Date
    February 1944
    Medium
    gelatin silver print from half-tone negative
    Dimensions
    Overall: 17.5 x 21.5 cm (6 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
    Credit Line
    Gift from Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007
    Object Number
    2007/2556.8
    Type of object
    Photograph
  • Extended Label

    As an employee of the Statistics Department in the Lodz Ghetto, Ross frequenty undertook graphic-design projects. In 1960, he revisited his photographs while working on the book The Last Journey of the Jewa of Lodz. Ross fixated on the image of a young boy who stands out among the residents trudging through snow to deportation at the Radogoszcz station.

    He made many modified versions of the photograph, with varying crops and views, and used it to create photomontage compositions. The anguish of the young boy is symbolic of the tragedy Ross captured in his documentation of the Jews of Lodz.

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