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MFA Boston receives gift of 48 Henryk Ross photographs depicting life inside a World War II Jewish Ghetto
Henryk Ross (Polish, 19101991), Untitled from Litzmann (Lodz) Ghetto, 19401945. Photograph, gelatin silver print. Gift of Howard Greenberg in honor of Jacques Preis. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS
.-The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has received a gift of 48 photographs by Henryk Ross (19101991), which offer an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside Polands Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust. Donated to the MFA by collector Howard Greenberg, the group of gelatin silver prints was originally given directly by Ross to Lova Szmuszkowicz, later Leon Sutton (19092007), a fellow survivor of the Lodz Ghetto who brought them to the U.S. when he immigrated to New York City in 1947. The prints represent a significant range of both official images, which Ross took as a photographer for the ghettos Department of Statistics, and the unofficial photograph