Photograph of employees in Łódź ghetto

Photograph of employees in Łódź ghetto 

Photograph of employees in Łódź ghetto 

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The photograph depicts a group of employees in the economic administration department in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Rachel Waner [donor's mother], seated on right, was a teacher, and in the ghetto she was the principal of a school on 6 Smugowa Street. After the closing of the schools in the fall of 1941, she taught children in the carpet workshop of the ghetto and later worked in the economic administration department along with her husband, Chaim Waner. Inka Waner Honigman [donor], standing to the left of her mother, was a high-school student and later worked in the ghetto's hat workshop.