File:Childwarsawghetto.jpg

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Description: Yad Vashem call this "Warsaw, Poland. A starving child lying in a ghetto street." Taken from an album that was found with a German soldier.

Photographer: Heinz Joest, a Wehrmacht sergeant.

Date: Believed to be September 19, 1941, the photographer's 43rd birthday, which he spent taking photographs in the ghetto, which was forbidden. See "A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell", IMDb.com. Also see Cinema and the Shoah by Jean-Michel Frodon and Anna Harrison, SUNY Press, 2010, p. 333.

Source: Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum in Israel. The image is here. For details from the photo archive, see here. As these URLs might be dynamically generated, if they don't work, go here, and add "starving child" to the search box. It should be image number three.

Name of the submitter to Yad Vashem: Sheila Brull

Image ID at Yad Vashem: 50044

Archival signature: 5002/7

Fair use rationale for use in The Holocaust[edit]

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is a historically significant photo.
2. It offers an insight into conditions in the ghettos.
3. It is low resolution.
4. The photo is only being used for informational purposes in a section about the ghettos.
5. Because the image depicts a non-reproducible historic event, there is no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.
6. As is usually the case with Holocaust images, is not possible to obtain a release.

• This image is not subject to copyright as it was taken by a Nazi and all Nazi copyrights were revoked at the end of WW2

Fair use rationale for use in Warsaw Ghetto[edit]

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is a historically significant photo.
2. It offers an insight into conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
3. It is low resolution.
4. The photo is only being used for informational purposes in an article about the Warsaw ghetto.
5. Because the image depicts a non-reproducible historic event, there is no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.
6. As is usually the case with Holocaust images, is not possible to obtain a release.