Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph
Photograph of Nazi atrocities in Ukraine
Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph
The Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph is a prominent depiction of the Holocaust in Ukraine during World War II. Dated to 1942, it shows an Einsatzgruppen member aiming his rifle at a woman trying to shield a child with her body, portraying one of numerous genocidal killings carried out against Jews by the Einsatzgruppen within German-occupied Europe. The photograph was taken in Ivanhorod, a village in what was then German-occupied Ukraine, before being mailed to Germany. However, the Polish resistance movement intercepted the photograph in Warsaw, and it was subsequently kept as Holocaust imagery by the Polish photographer Jerzy Tomaszewski. The photograph was first published for public consumption in Poland in 1959 and quickly spread across the Western world. In the 1960s, far-right West German newspapers alleged that the photograph was a forgery by the government of the Polish People's Republic, but that claim was eventually proven false. Since becoming popularly known, it has been...
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