The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross Lodz

The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross

Lodz Ghetto

Who was Henryk Ross?

Boy digging for food. Residents hold up their glasses in celebration. How do Henryk Ross’s photographs represent the complexity of life in the Lodz ghetto?

Analyzing Visual Images Description • What is happening in this photograph? • What captures your attention? Analysis and Interpretation • What message or meaning do you think Ross communicates? • How effective are Ross’s choices in communicating his indented message? Cultural Context • What was happening in society during that time? Socially? Historically? Politically? • Who was the intended audience for the photograph?

Analyzing Visual Images and Big Paper Activity • 2 – 2 1/2 minutes at each station • Analyze the images using the questions provided. Is there a theme that connects these photographs? • Write your own response, reply to another person’s, or write a question on the BIG PAPER.

Resistance • How do you define resistance? • Why do people resist? • How can photography be used as an act of resistance?

Boarding deportation train at Radogaszcz Station

Production in the leather factory

The marriage of Henryk Ross and Stefania Schoenberg

Man who saved the torah from the rubble of the synagogue on Wolborska Street

Man holding child in the air, outside the ghetto buildings

Excavating the box of negatives and documents Henryk Ross buried in the ghetto at 12 Jagielonska Street, Lodz, March 1945

Resistance • How has your definition of resistance changed? • How can you use photography as an act of resistance in your life today?