The Death Pit
The Death Pit - One of the most widely reproduced photos of a massacre in Eastern Europe showing an execution possibly by members of a German Sonderkommando SS and local forces. 1943. The picture was first published 1945 in Zaglada Zydostwa Polskiego, Album Zdjec (The Extermination of Polish Jews, an Album of Photographs), by the Jewish Historical Committee in Lodz, which stated that it had been taken in the north-east of Poland. The perpetrators are identified in the caption as Germans and secret police agents'. Poland. Date: 1943
Picture No
12000239
Media ID
45113440
Size
4134px x 2969px
(5.9MB)
Credit
© The Bilderwelt Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
***STRICTLY EDITORIAL USE ONLY***
Source
Photograph from the Bilderwelt Collection
Date
1943
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Agents Caption Executions Extermination Holocaust Identified Killings łodź Lodz Massacre North East North-east Perpetrators Reproduced Schutzstaffel Stated Widely
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