"A German Officer Lectures Children in the Ghetto in Lublin"
Associated Press
United States, established 1846
December 20, 1940
A gelatin silver news photograph showing a German officer addressing children in the Lublin ghetto, intended to document and report life under Nazi occupation.
A cluster of children meet the camera with uneasy curiosity while the blurred profile and pointing hand of a uniformed officer dominates the left foreground, and a muddy street with a cart recedes into the background.
As wartime photojournalism, it makes visible the coercive everyday reality of occupied communities and contributes to the photographic record that later helped document the atrocities of the Nazi era.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
6 5/8 × 8 7/16" (16.8 × 21.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The New York Times Collection
Accession
1929.2001
Palette
Exhibitions
