Survivor of Lodz Ghetto recounts Holocaust atrocities [audio 6min @16:00]

In the spring of 1940, the German forces occupying Poland drove the Jews of Lodz into the Holocaust's second-largest and most hermetically-sealed ghetto. It functioned both as a sweatshop serving the German war effort, and a prison for Jews en route to the death camps of Chelmno and Auschwitz. Henryk Ross was a photographer employed by the ghetto's Department of Statistics who kept a clandestine diary of ghetto life in powerful and often brilliant images. When the ghetto's liquidation began, he buried them. A survivor, he dug them up after the war, releasing many that were to become icons of the Holocaust's atrocities. Incredibly, at a Holocaust remembrance day in Nottingham in 2004, "Making History" listener Helena Aronson saw herself in one of Henryk Ross's photographs and a story that she had kept secret for over 50 years was finally told.