Henry Ross. From Dawn to Dusk. Photographs by Henryk Ross from the Lodz ghetto, taken between 1940 and 1944
Collection from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario.
Exhibition concept: Lilka Elbaum
Curator: Krzysztof Jurecki
Curator and producer: Jerzy Maciej Koba
Free entry
Place: Preburial House / Jewish cemetery, 40 Bracka St. (entrance from Zmienna St.).
Organizer: the Jewish Community of Lodz.
Henryk Ross was a photographer tasked with taking propaganda photos for the German administration, but in hiding he managed to capture life in the Lodz ghetto: executions, deaths, births, weddings, deportations. His negatives and works from 1940-1944, buried in the ground, were unearthed after the war. They are a unique record of the life and Holocaust of Lodz Jews and those deported to the ghetto from towns near Lodz and from Nazi-occupied Europe. They come from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. The above institutions have made part of their collection available to the Jewish Community of Lodz to make the exhibition a memorial to the ghetto.