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During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April-May 1943), SS and SD officers force a group of Jews to leave their shelter. Second from the right, pointing a submachine gun at a Jewish boy holding his hands above his head, is SS-Rotenfuerer Josef Bloesche.
The Jews in the photograph were subsequently forced to march to the Umschlagplatz, the holding areas next to railway stations, before they were deported to Nazi concentration camps.
The photograph originates from the Stroop Report, an album commissioned by Higher SS and Police Leader Friedrich Wilhelm Kreuger to gift to Heinrich Himmler to celebrate the successful suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the liquidation of the ghetto (1943). Two copies of the album were presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. (National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)
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