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One of the most impressive picture collections that survived WWII was created clandestinely by the Jewish photographer Henryk Ross.

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Ross was born in 1910. Before the war he had been a sports photographer for a Warsaw newspaper.

When the Lodz Ghetto was sealed by the Germans in May 1940, Ross was forced to move into the ghetto. He managed to get a job as one of the official photographers in the ghetto.

Along with his colleague Mendel Grossman, Ross was in charge of producing identity and propaganda photographs for the Department of Statistics in the Lodz Ghetto.

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Due to his task, Ross had access to film and processing facilities in the ghetto. He used these to secretly document the conditions in the ghetto, the suffering of the Jews there, and the brutality of the Germans. His work was an act of resistance agains