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A Child at Gunpoint is the informal title to one of the photos [1] of Stroop Report[2]. It is one of the most iconic photos of the twentieth century.

The original German caption reads "Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt" ("Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs").

More than any other photos, this famous photograph captures the essence of the horrors of Holocaust: Warsaw 1943, a little Jewish boy, dressed in short trousers and a cap, raises his arms in surrender with lowered eyes, as a Nazi soldier Josef_Blösche trains his machine gun on him.

"Widely regarded as the most haunting image we have of the Holocaust, the photo of a young boy with his hands up being driven from the Warsaw ghetto has served as a touchstone for everyone from the Nuremberg prosecutors to Elie Wiesel, and from Susan Sontag to revisionist ranters on the web." --Richard Raskin

The photo is a moment in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II.

People identified

People identified in the picture:

  • Boy in the front was not recognized, some possible identities: Artur Dab Siemiatek, Levi Zelinwarger (next to his mother Chana Zelinwarger) and Tsvi Nussbaum.
  • Hanka Lamet - small girl on the left
  • Matylda Lamet Goldfinger - Hanka's mother next to her (second from the left)
  • Leo Kartuziński - far back with white bag on his shoulder
  • Golda Stavarowski - also in the back, first woman from the right, with one hand raised
  • Josef Blösche - SS man with the gun


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