NEW IMAGES OF WARSAW GHETTO

Some 36 historic pictures of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943 have been seen for the first time.

For the past 80 years, the only way to see images of Jews rising up against their captors in the ghetto has been from the perspective of Germans, who took the only known photographs.

But now a roll of film taken by Warsaw firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski has been discovered by his son Maciej.

The find was announced by the POLIN Museum, which opened on the 70th anniversary of the uprising 10 years ago. The museum plans to display the pictures as part of an exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary in April.

“The image on them is often blurred, recorded in a hurry, hidden, partially obscured by the elements of the immediate surroundings: the window frame, the wall of the building or standing figures of people,” the museum said in a statement. “The photos, however imperfect, are priceless.”

Zbigniew Grzywaczewski’s brigade was tasked with making sure the fire in the ghetto did not spread to the “Aryan” side of the city as the Nazis put down the revolt, in which an estimated 13,000 Jews died, many of them as a result of the fires.