New photographs of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising found in family collection

Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz and Maciej Grzywaczewski examine the plates of the Warsaw Ghetto photos taken by Macjej’s father, Zbigniew Grzywaczewski, who died in 1993. Museum of the History of Polish Jews, photo credit M. Jazwiecki
Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz and Maciej Grzywaczewski examine the plates of the Warsaw Ghetto photos taken by Macjej’s father, Zbigniew Grzywaczewski, who died in 1993. Museum of the History of Polish Jews, photo credit M. Jazwiecki
Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz (right) and Maciej Grzywaczewski (left) examine the plates of the Warsaw Ghetto photos taken by Macjej’s father, Zbigniew Grzywaczewski, who died in 1993. Courtesy of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, photo credit M. Jazwiecki

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – On Jan. 18, Warsaw’s Jewish history museum presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were recently discovered in a family collection. The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews described the discovery of negatives with some 20 never-seen images as an important discovery.

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