An album with 8 photographs of a Jewish couple getting married in the Lodz ghetto – Photographs of the couple in the days before their wedding in the ghetto – beautiful handmade decorations.
The caption of the album reads: “Im lodz ghetto”: (Deutsch) “In lodz ghetto”, and a painting of Star of David. On the first page are two passport photos of the couple, and the date that appears on the page near: March 22, 1941. One of the photographs shows the bride in her room next to a window, and the caption on the opposite page: Dzień przed ślubem w Dworska – “The day before the wedding in Dworska” (Dworska was a main street in the Lodz ghetto where the ghetto administration offices were later located). On one of the pages of the album on the page corresponding to the bride’s photograph is a Star of David, and a drawing of a barbed wire fence. Some of the album’s pages have handmade decorations and captions in Polish.
At the time the photographs in the album were taken, the situation of the Jews in the ghetto was reasonable. The Judenrat operated in a relatively organized manner and even provided exceptional community services relative to other ghettos, such as food, health, education, post, culture and housing services, and most of the ghetto residents still had work. The first deportations from the ghetto to the Chelmno extermination camp took place about a year later, in the first months of 1942.
Provenance: Second generation estate of Holocaust survivors from Lodz. (The album was founded in the suitcase that their father brought from his years in the ghetto). The identity of those photographed, and what happened to them, whether they perished or survived, are unknown to us.
Album: 13.5×8 cm. Photos: 9×7 cm, and two passport-size photos. original cardboard cover – loose . general condition good.
