Ghetto Life
How many people lived in the ghetto in Lodz?
200,000 people
Where did this story take place?
Lodz, Poland
How many European Jews were killed by the German Nazis during World War II?
6 million (including others)
What does "evoke" mean as used in the last paragraph of the section "Pictures of Daily Life"?
bring to mind, make someone think of
What is this text mostly about?
Henryk's photographs of life in a Polish ghetto during the Holocaust.
What word best completes the sentence: Henryk Ross's son gave the collection of photographs to the Archive of Modern Conflict ________ his father's death.
after
What can be inferred from the text about food in the ghetto?
There often was not enough food for people.
Describe what is happening in Ross's photo from The Wiener Library.
It shows starving Jewish people eating soup.
What is a conclusion about Ross's photographs from the 2nd paragraph in the section "Pictures of Daily Life"?
Some of Ross's pictures made the ghetto seem like a good place to be, and some showed it as a terrible place to be.
Why did Ross bury some photos during the war? Use evidence to support your answer.
He may have buried them because they "evoke painful memories."