Final Pictures
Die „rassenkundliche “ Untersuchung jüdischer Familien im Ghetto Tarnów 1942/ The 1942 “Race Study” of Jewish Families in the Tarnów Ghetto
Exhibition catalogue.
In late 1941, two Viennese scholars developed a project “to research typical Eastern European Jews.” The following March, using the “cold eye of science,” they took photographs of more than a hundred Jewish families – 565 men, women and children – in the German-occupied Polish city of Tarnów. Only 26 of these people were able to survive the Holocaust and recount what happened. Pictures and brief biographies of those murdered have been preserved.
This exhibition documents the work carried out by the two scholars while also depicting the lives of Jews in Tarnów before 1939 and their murder under German occupation. This story is typical of how hundreds of Jewish communities were persecuted and destroyed in the parts of Poland under German rule and terror.
A joint exhibition of the Topography of Terror Foundation, the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Natural History Museum Vienna.
Author
Margit Berner
Editor
Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, vertreten durch / represented by Dr. Andrea Riedle
ISBN
978-3-941772-47-2
Language
englisch / deutsch
Publishing Place
Hentrich & Hentrich (Topographie des Terrors Notizen Visuell 3)
Pages
292 Pages
Publishing Year
2020