File:Aerial photograph of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto.jpg

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Summary

Author

No original autorship, made by automatic camera installed on the plane. Released to the public domain

Description

English: Aerial photograph of northern Warsaw Ghetto area (looking south, north direction located at bottom). In the middle German Concentration Camp in Warsaw (named KL Warschau or KZ Warschau), created in 1943 - see precise localisation of KL Warschau here [1]. Warsaw, capital of Poland during german occupation (1939-1945)

Polski: Zdjęcie lotnicze północnej części Getta Warszawskiego (kierunek północny na górze). Pośrodku obszar niemieckiego obozu koncentracyjnego w Warszawie (nazwanego KL Warschau lub KZ Warschau), utworzonego w 1943 - zobacz dokładną lokalizację KL Warschau tutaj [2]. Stolica polski Warszawa podczas okupacji niemieckiej (1939-1945)

Date

Picture taken after 16 may 1943 over Warsaw, probably november 1944

Collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

	Native name	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
	Location	Washington, D.C., United States of America
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 13.17″ N, 77° 01′ 58.88″ E
	Established	April 22, 1993
	Website	www.ushmm.org/
	Authority file	: Q238990 VIAF: 126589773 ISNI: 0000000121517875 LCCN: n87838989 NLA: 35293908 GND: 5075370-8 WorldCat

Credit line

, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Source

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #04402 [3]

Other versions

This file has an extracted image: Aerial photograph of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto (cropped).JPG.

Contemporary localisation of the area (Google Maps): [4]

Licensing

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	07:37, 17 June 2020	1,091 × 992 (422 KB)	Buidhe	Cropped 9 % horizontally, 17 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode.
	07:29, 17 June 2020	1,200 × 1,200 (517 KB)	Buidhe	higher res https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa29047
	13:58, 13 March 2008	370 × 370 (147 KB)	<bdi>Spetsedisa</bdi>	sharper image added
	22:37, 21 November 2006	291 × 298 (33 KB)	Masti	Aerial photo of German Concentration Camp in Warsaw, Poland during Nazi occupation of the polish capital. made by US Air Force 1943 Category:Warsaw