us-005578-irn531137
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: 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.
date: circa 1939-1940
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had subject: 585
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn531137
record resource extent: folders 2
record resource structure: The collection is arranged as two folders.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: 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.
title: Henryk Chęciński photograph collection