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Once buried, a cache of images from Poland’s Lodz Ghetto emerges at the MFA
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For decades, Leon Sutton kept the photographs hidden away in an unassuming envelope, 48 documents that offer an astonishing portrait of life inside Poland’s Lodz Ghetto during the Second World War.
The postcard-sized photos, images that Jewish photographer Henryk Ross once buried underground to protect from the Nazis, reveal everything from street and work scenes, to heart-wrenching images of mass deportations, separations, even a hanging.
Sutton, a Polish Jew who was confined to the Ghetto before being sent to Auschwitz, guarded his cache of memories from the end of the war until his death in 2007. Now, more than 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the photos have found a permanent home at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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