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"I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy."
—Henryk Ross

“Memory Unearthed” offers an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside the Lodz Ghetto during its existence from to , through the lens of Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross (–).

Situated in the heart of Poland, the city of Lodz (pronounced Wudz in Polish; Lodzh in Yiddish; Ludz in English) was occupied by German forces in The Germans consolidated the area’s Jewish population—more than , people—into a poor industrial section of the city, sealing it off from the outside world, making the Lodz Ghetto second in Jewish population only to the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Europe.

Henryk Ross was among those confined to the ghetto in and he was put to work by the Nazi regime as a bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration’s Statistics department.

Ross took official photographs for Jewish identification cards, as well as images u