AUTHENTICATED PHOTOS SHOW 1941 HAMBURG-TO-LODZ JEWISH DEPORTATION; GLOBAL EFFORT SEEKS TO NAME 1,304 VICTIMS

Haaretz reports that newly authenticated photographs from a German policeman’s album are the only known images of the 1941 deportation of 1,304 Jews from Hamburg to the Lodz ghetto. The images show deportees, piles of luggage, and military trucks used for transport, correcting past misidentifications. The find, credited to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, has triggered an international crowdsourced effort by historians, archivists, and families to identify victims and update archival records.