From 1941 to 1944; the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910–1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lodz Ghetto. Covertly; he captured on film scores of both quotidian and intimate moments of Jewish life. In 1944; he buried thousands of negatives in an attempt to save this secret record. After the war; Ross returned to Poland to retrieve them. Although some were destroyed by nature and time; many negatives survived. Memory Unearthed presents a selection of the nearly 3;000 surviving images—along with original prints and other archival material including curfew notices and newspapers—from the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Ross’s images offer a startling and moving new representation of one of humanity’s greatest tragedies. Striking for both their historical content and artistic quality; his photographs have a raw intimacy and emotional power that remain undiminished.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. globalisation leading to the use of slaves ?By W BoudvilleHopper gives a story of slavery that may well be unfamiliar to American readers who often conflate that slavery effectively ended with the US civil war. We see in the text that actual slavery was alive right into the 20th century in Arabia. There are accounts from the logs of Royal Navy captains tasked with intercepting slaver ships in the Indian Ocean. Mostly indeed a noble venture. But we see accounts of how sometimes the events were not so stark. A captain might compromise and not imprison the slavers or even free the slaves. Perhaps to accommodate local Arab mores in a gesture of pragmatism.Some light hearted moments in the book touch upon how dates were marketed in the US. Grown and picked in Arabia by slaves and then shipped by sail. A touching case of globalisation if it were not from the slaves. Reminding us that globalisation may indeed have troubling aspects; as least a century or so ago.This reminds me of another history book; written in the 50s; about an inventor of a way to harvest cotton more efficiently. The author remarked that the invention made economic another 2 generations of the Southern slavocracy [sic]. For both the slaves and the masters. The picked cotton was sold to British mills. A globalisation that predates the one in Hopper's text.
