Szymon Tenenbaum
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Szymon Tenenbaum was a Polish zoologist and entomologist from Warsaw. He died of starvation and exhaustion under home arrest in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German invasion of Poland. His vast collect
Tenenbaum with daughter Irena, 1932
Szymon Tenebaum Polish entomologist
Warsaw Ghetto
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The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory o
Szymon Tenenbaum
…region including many that no longer exist. He also took an interest in herpetology. During the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he was trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto, locked up with his wife Eleonora and daughter Irena. He became unwell, and although his friends the Żabiński couple (depicted in the film The Zookeeper's…
Brick wall of the Warsaw Ghetto dividing the Iron-Gate Square, with view of bombed out Lubomirski Palace (left) on the "Aryan" side of the city, May 24, 1941.
Karmelicka Street 11 from Nowolipia September/October 1939
Aerial photograph of the northern Warsaw Ghetto area after its destruction, probably 1944
Roundup of Jewish men for forced labor by the Order Police battalions, Krakowskie Przedmieście, March 1940