A photograph showing Jews accompanied a carriage carrying a coffin in the Warsaw ghetto, depicted on the back in pencil in German: Eine Beerdigung des Warschauer Ghettos – a funeral in the Warsaw ghetto [c. 1940].
A coffin carried on a carriage accompanied by a number of Jews. On the right can be seen an armband by one of the Accompanied, behind, men and women in the entrance of the building watching.
In the months when hunger intensified in the ghetto, several hundred people died every day (in the first year of the ghetto, there were 43,258 deaths, a third of them due to malnutrition). And due to the war of survival there was no official body which took care of the burial arrangements. Improvised funeral journeys made by the family of the deceased, or by individual people living in the ghetto who did not knew the deceased at all, were a daily view in the ghetto.
A photograph of a similar carriage on other funeral procession in the ghetto see here (Holocaust Museum in Washington).
9×7 cm. Very good condition.
