A severely emaciated child with medium-light skin tone sitting on a street eating while people walk around them. The child is wearing a heavy jacket and worn slippers with bare legs.
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A destitute child in the Warsaw ghetto

An emaciated child eats on a street in the Warsaw ghetto in German-occupied Poland. This was photograph was taken by German soldier Willy Georg in summer 1941.


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  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rafael Scharf
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