A woman and her ill child on a rickshaw in the Warsaw ghetto.

A woman and her ill child on a rickshaw in the Warsaw ghetto.

Joest's caption reads: "Where would this rickshaw driver take this child who was obviously sick with Typhus? Was there still a hospital for Jews? No one among my German comrades could tell me."

Heinrich Joest was a German Army sargeant during WWII and took picture of life behind the Warsaw Ghetto walls on his birthday in 1941. He kept the pictures he took, like this one, to himself until 1988, when he met Guenther Schwarberg, a reporter for "Der Stern" magazine, who interviewed him and facilitated the publication of some of his images.

Heinrich Joest

1941, September 19

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Guenther Schwarberg
Source Record ID: Collections: 2004.1.59
Second Record ID: Collections: 2004.1.1

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