A Polish undertaker looked at the layers of Warsaw ghetto Jewish corpses laid out at the bottom of the cemetery. One after another, layer after layer of dead Jews from the ghetto were covered with lime. One hole held many dead Jews.

    In Warsaw, the capital of Poland, the eastern front of World War II, German Heinrich Jöst (Heinrich Jöst) photographed the Warsaw Geto on September 19, 1941, in a mass grave at the Okopowa Street Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, the eastern front of World War II. A Polish undertaker gazed at the layers of corpses laid out at the bottom of the cemetery. One after another, the layers of Jewish corpses in the ghetto were created and covered with lime. There was room for so many dead Jews in one hole. The bodies of the ghettos lay close to each other. Next to each other, legs entwined, they filled every little space. Many of the corpses were Jewish women.

　Sergeant Heinrich Joost, a German NCO, took a day off from his unit stationed in Warsaw on September 19, 1941, to take a full day photo tour of the Warsaw Ghetto. September 19 was his 43rd birthday, and that night, at the Hotel Bristol, he and his friends celebrated. He was planning to celebrate with friends at the Hotel Bristol that night. Just before leaving for the hotel, he took pictures of the Warsaw ghetto with his Rolleiflex camera. It is possible that he went to the Warsaw ghetto on more than one occasion. One day was probably not enough to take 160 photographs taken at multiple locations; in April 1941, the 3.07 km2 Warsaw Ghetto housed approximately 450,000 people at 7 square meters per person.

　The misery, starvation, and mass graves of the ghetto were photographed in greater detail. In 1982, one year before Heinrich Joost's death, Joost turned the photos over to German journalist Günther Schwarberg (Günther Schwarberg). Günther Schwarberg also gave a photocopy of the photographs to Yad Vashem in Israel. He exhibited the photographs and posted them on his website. In 2001, Günter Schwarberg published a book of his photographs entitled "In the Ghetto of Warsaw: Heinrich Jöst's Photographs.