Henryk Chęciński photograph collection
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Henryk Chęciński (1915-1944) was an amateur photographer from Warsaw, Poland. He was arrested during a random round up around 1941-1942. He was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and later transferred to the Gusen subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp where he was killed.
circa 1939-1940
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Henryk Chęciński photograph collection
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The collection contains 45 photographs taken by amateur photographer Henryk Chęciński in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, circa 1939-1940. Subjects include bombed buildings, makeshift graves, German soldiers, Polish soldiers, German soldiers marching groups of Jewish men in the street, three hanging men in front of a crowd, and people in the street.
The collection is arranged as two folders.