Grzywaczewskii, firefighter and activist hid negatives in boxes found by his son some 80 years later; photos depict the burning ghetto, Jews marching toward the freight cars that would take them to the death camps.
Never before seen photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were recently found in the home of a Polish firefighter, who was sent to extinguish the ghetto fires.
Nearly all known images of the uprising were taken by German officers, who photographed the event to report back to headquarters in Berlin.
Zvigniev Grzywaczewskii took dozens of pictures and hid the negatives in boxes in his home. Some were smuggled to the West and reached the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
The rest of the negatives were only found two months ago, when Grzywaczewski's son discovered them in his attic.
Grzywaczewski was a member of the Polish underground and a well-known activist in the solidarity movement, which eventually toppled communism in Poland in the 1980s.
The search for these pictures began with preparations for a special exhibition to be opened at the "POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews," to mark the 80th anniversary of the uprising.
Source: Ynet - Telegram