Henryk Chęciński photograph collection

Henryk Chęciński (1915-1944) was an amateur photographer from Warsaw, Poland. He was arrested during a random round up around 1941-1942. He was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and later transferred to the Gusen subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp where he was killed. The collection contains 45 photographs taken by amateur photographer Henryk Chęciński in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, circa 1939-1940. Subjects include bombed buildings, makeshift graves, German soldiers, Polish soldiers, German soldiers marching groups of Jewish men in the street, three hanging men in front of a crowd, and people in the street.