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Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto During World War II

In 1987, about 400 color slides photographed between 1939 and 1943 in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, surfaced in mint condition in Vienna. They were taken by the ghetto's top Nazi administrator: Walter Genewein. In PHOTOGRAPHER, Polish director Dariusz Jablonski juxtaposes the color slides with Genewein's detailed notes on the color quality of the slides and the ghetto's production figures, never reflecting on the human tragedy he is recording.