Holocaust Boy

We were assigned a random iconic picture in photojournalism to research information about it, write an essay, and present it to class. The picture above represents Jewish families being arrested by Nazi soldiers in order to transport them to be placed in gas chambers because of the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. Thousands of pictures from the Holocaust have surfaced through the decades epitomizing the hard times and suffrage present in the World War II era, yet this picture stands out because it successfully portrays the way Jewish men, women, and children were discriminated against and treated as criminals. This photo was taken from Jürgen Stroop's report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943 and has been titled one of the best-known pictures of World War II. The original German caption reads: "Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs". The boy in the picture might be Tsvi Nussbaum, who survived the Holocaust. Nussbaum's mother and father were murdered before the Jews of the region were sent to various German Nazi concentration camps. Tsvi's brother disappeared, never to be seen again. Shortly thereafter Tsvi and his aunt moved to Warsaw and, posing as gentiles, lived there for over a year. When caught, they were deported to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. After 1945, Tsvi moved to Palestine. After living in Israel for eight years, he moved to the United States. Initially, he did not speak English; but having a talent for science, he later studied medicine and became an otolaryngologist in New York City.