Warsaw ghetto photos

[Cor]

Last week I was in Warsaw and i was there only one day for my visit to Krakow. Unfortunately it was a really depressing day because it was raining very hard that day, so i couldn't see all places i wanted to see, and so didn't visit nowolipie street .

My hotel was near the prudential building and it looks like it was deserted and i was wondering what they are doing there. There was much construction before the building. Maybe i post some pictures later.

One place near the prudential building i took a photo of because it looked very much to the design of the reichschancellery building in Berlin. Anyone know more about this building? Maybe Wm?

[wm]

It's a Communist era building (1949), built by and for the now-defunct Public Service Employees Union.
But if you lived in the hotel on the left, the most famous Polish Nazi collaborator was executed there by the resistance - Igo Sym, for the price of 21 hostages.

The new owner of the Prudential has had change of plans and wants to add a nearby building to his project, but probably still hasn't been able to buy it.

http://fotopolska.eu/prudential+remont

[Cor]

My hotel was the Gromada Dom Chlopa. It was in the same street as the prudential building.

Here a then 1945 and now 2013 shot from the building

[PF]

Postscript:
In the large picture on 1st Page what type of Overcoat is that on the right foreground?
Who would have worn this NCOs or other ranks?

[BillHermann]

I find posts and comments like this interesting as there is no clear answer. Leather coats and other garments like the ones in the photos were rarely issued just like contemporary examples.

[PF]

Postscript
in regard to July 27, 2009 message with ariel Photo
Is this view from street at center looking toward lower right?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62763877@N ... Hce-9Legtj

[PF]

Postscript:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... he_war.jpg
Is that the Judenrat {Jewish Council} building in the Background?

[PF]

Postscript:
Jan 27, 2009 message-
another picture of same site
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... 943_05.jpg

[PF]

Postscript:
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Okopawa Street ? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... to_010.jpg
1944
Ariel View of Ghetto http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KLWarschau.JPG
1945
Bonifraterstwa Street http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... Street.jpg
Gesia Street http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... he_war.jpg
Leszno 50 and 52 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _ruins.jpg
Sienna and Sliska Streets http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... 5%29_4.jpg
1950
Ghetto Ruins http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... ,_1945.jpg

[Marcus]

I've merged three threads with Warsaw ghetto photos started by PF into this one.

/Marcus

[PF]

Postscript
THanks for merger

[James A Pratt III]

There an issue of ATB magazine that contains a number of then and now photos

[PF]

Postscript:

group # 1 April 22, 1943
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/73886a.HTM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _26568.jpg
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/73886b.HTM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _-_037.jpg

group #2 related pictures:
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibiti ... allery.asp
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/26546.htm

group # 3 related pictures:
http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarc ... to&index=2
USHMM reports that The original German caption reads: "Jewish rabbis. " Among those pictured is Rabbi Heschel Rappaport. Original caption from donated photograph reads: "The following pictures are copies of the book conaning the report of the German commander who was responsible for cleaning out that ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.
http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarc ... p&index=22
The original German caption reads: "Jewish rabbis. USHMM Identies them as " From left to right are Rabbi Lipa Kaplan, Eliyahu Levin (son of Rabbi Hersh Henoch of Bedzin), Mendel Alter (son of Rabbi Nechemya Alter); Yankel Levin (son of Rabbi Mottel Levin of Lodz and grandson of the rabbi of Bedzin), unknown and Rabbi Heschel Rappaport, a Gerer Chassid and mentor to young Chassidim.


Group # 4 May 8 or May 9, 1943
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/86321.htm
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photos ... 96868.html
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibiti ... allery.asp
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photos ... 47893.html
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/p462.htm
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/18188.htm
{Note USHMM Version reports this last picture was taken 21st day of uprising}

[PF]

Postscript See links to photographs
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... y_location

[Marcus]

Two additional threads on the same topic from PF were merged into this one.

/Marcus