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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shaun Walker in Warsaw

Lost photos from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising reveal horror of Jews’ last stand

A fire at Nalewki street next to Krasinski Park during the evacuation of the ghetto around 20 April, 1943.
One of the discovered photographs shows a fire at Nalewki street next to Krasinski Park during the evacuation of the ghetto around 20 April, 1943. Photograph: Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski/AFP/Getty Images

The photographs are blurry, composed hastily and taken surreptitiously, sometimes with heads or objects in the foreground obscuring part of the view.

But Holocaust historians say the imperfect pictures, discovered last month in a Polish attic decades after their creator died, are nonetheless priceless. They are the only known photographs from inside the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising not to be taken by Germans.

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