And I Still See Their Faces

Photos from Pre-War Lodz

"Those in the photographs do not know yet that soon their houses will be deserted, the streets of their towns covered with the black snow of fluff from slit eiderdowns, that the wisdom of the Book will be able to save no one. All that will remain after them, when the biblical names have left in cattle cars - could be put in a drawer, hidden in the attic, buried in junk."

And I Still See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews
by Golda Tencer

Queen Jadwiga Elementary School in Lodz, on an excursion to Krakow, October 2, 1935; School girls from the Queen Jadwiga Elementary School in Lodz, on a school excursion

Ala (nee´ Salomonczyk) Libeskind of Lodz, with friends on the beach in Sopot, late 1920s-early 1930s: photo 1 and photo 2

The Lewkowicz family, 66 Zachodnia Street: Szymele, Szmulek and Szymszo, their mother Jachet Lewkowicz, a spinner, and their grandmother Matje Moszkowicz, interwar period

Bluma Maria Rubinowicz, 1920s

Mr. and Mrs. Lensztajn, 37 Wolczanska Street (Mr. Lensztajn was the vice director of Poznanski's factory) and son Marcel Lensztajn

The Fajwusz and Malcia (nee' Cynamon) Kon family, 62 Nawrot Street, early 1930s

Oskar (Oszer) Kon, owner of a large textile factory at 271 Piotrkowska Street, with his father Lewi Kohn and his brother during Sukkot, 1915

Mrs. Sobocka and her daughter, from the family of Lajzer Sobocki of Lodz

Ruda Rubinowicz and daughter Sonia at a resort in Kaly near Lodz, circa 1927 and after their return from Russia to Lodz in 1946

Yeshiva students in pre-war Lodz

An identity card from 1923. Icyk Rubinowicz, born January 14, 1895 in Lodz, son of Aron and Blima. Religion: Judaism. Occupation: baker. Marital status: married.

Scene from the Lodz ghetto, 1943

Baluty district of Lodz, 1943. Ghetto Border. The sign reads: "Jewish Quarter. Entry forbidden."

Bridge over Zgierska Street. Passage from one section of the Lodz ghetto to the other. 1943.

View the complete online exhibit of photos, And I Still See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews, at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance web site.