81: The Boy

 

81 years ago (April 1943) the Germans took this well-known photograph of captured Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in German-Occupied Poland.

It was part of the Stroop Report - the Official Report prepared by General Jürgen Stroop for SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, recounting the German suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Liquidation of the Ghetto.

The Boy and the Others hid in a bunker during the Final Liquidation of the Ghetto, but they were caught and forced out by German troops.

After the photograph was taken, all of the Jews in the photograph were marched to the Umschlagplatz and deported to either the Majdanek or Treblinka Death Camps where none are known to have survived.

The Woman emerging from the building directly behind the Boy was Gołda Stawarowska.

The Boy with the white bag over his shoulder was Ahron Leizer (Leo) Kartuziński.

The small Girl on the extreme left foreground was Channa (Hanka) Lamet (1937–1943.)

The Woman wearing the scarf was Hanka's Mother, Matylda Goldfinger-Lamet.

The SS Rottenführer, aiming the MP 28 submachine gun at the Boy, was Josef Blösche. He was tried and executed for his crimes by the East German Communists on July 29, 1969.

The Identity of the Boy is unknown.