The main celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of Litzmannstadt-Getto will take place on August 29 at the Jewish Cemetery and Radegast Station. In addition to the religious ceremonies and the symbolic lighting of candles at the monument to the memory of the Jews of Lodz, on that day at 10:30 a.m. the exhibition “From Dawn till Dusk” will be opened in the Preburial House on the Jewish Cemetery grounds. It will feature 70 photographs from a collection of 3000 salvaged negatives by Henryk Ross.

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.

Admission to the event is free.

Organizer: Jewish Community of Lodz
Exhibition concept: Lilka Elbaum
Curator: Krzysztof Jurecki
Curator and producer: Jerzy Maciej Koba
Essay for the catalog: Maia Mari Sutink, Art Gallery of Ontario
Photos from the collection: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston and Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto