The Jewish photographer who bore witness to the unbearable

A new exhibit honors the brave photography of Henryk Ross, who captured the slow erosion of humanity in Poland's Lodz Ghetto

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From the exhibit, Memory Unearthed
(Image credit: Henryk Ross)
(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario))

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario)Ross and his family lived in the Lodz Ghetto, along with 160,000 other Jews (a population that would swell to 200,000 before plummeting to about 900 during)

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario))

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario))

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario)But at great risk to himself, Ross decided to also record the atrocities and grim realities of ghetto life. Hiding in buildings or snapping photos from und)

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario))

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario)An exhibit of Ross' moving images, Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross, is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. By takin)

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario))

(Image credit: (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario)**Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston until July 30, 2017. For more information a)

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Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.