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199852 min0documentary

5.5/ 10(4 ratings)• TMDB

Photographer

199852 min0documentary

5.5/ 10(4 ratings)• TMDB

A collection of color slides discovered in a Vienna bookstore reveals photographs taken by Walter Genewein, the Nazis' chief accountant in the Lodz ghetto.

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Dariusz Jabłoński

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A collection of color slides discovered in a Vienna bookstore reveals photographs taken by Walter Genewein, the Nazis' chief accountant in the Lodz ghetto.

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Dariusz Jabłoński

Dariusz Jabłońskidirector

Arnold Mostowiczcast

Jürgen Andreascast

Artur Brauner

Artur Braunercast

Helmut Weestmanncast

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Walter Genewein, the chief accountant in the Lodz ghetto, captured a series of color slides that reveal the daily lives of Jewish workers during the Holocaust. Discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Vienna in 1987, these photographs reflect Genewein's technical focus while he implemented policies that extended the ghetto's existence through productivity and cost-cutting. Directed by Dariusz Jabłoński, the film reinterprets these images, contrasting Genewein's detached perspective with the suffering experienced by the inmates in this dark chapter of history.

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