(Times of Israel) Penny Schwartz - In the spring of 1945, Henryk Ross, one of the few survivors of the Lodz ghetto, unearthed a box containing 6,000 photo negatives he had taken while confined to the ghetto. "I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy....I wanted to leave a historical record of our martyrdom," he wrote four decades later. Ross, who died in 1991 in Israel, was one of two Jews in the ghetto, along with Mendel Grossman, who took official photographs for the Statistics Department of the Judenrat, the Jewish Council, set up under Nazi rule. Some 160,000 Jews were confined in the Lodz Ghetto from 1940 to 1944. It was the longest-existing ghetto and the second-largest, after Warsaw. Hunger and starvation killed one-quarter of the ghetto's residents. An exhibit of Ross' surviving photographs will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston from March 25 through July 30, its first showing in the U.S.
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