On September 14, 1941, during World War II, an undertaker dropped a dead Jewish body into a deep hole dug in a cemetery in the ghetto on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Poland.

      On September 14, 1941, during World War II, an undertaker dropped a dead Jewish body into a deep hole dug in a cemetery in the ghetto on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Poland.An undertaker from the M.B. Pinkiert Funeral Home unloaded the body from a cart in the mass grave at the Warsaw Ghetto Cemetery. As soon as the body cart was emptied, the bodies returned. Like household trash dumped in a ditch, the corpses of people who had lived only moments before were dumped in their graves before my very eyes." Terrible things are happening in the cemetery," the description stated.

　  In 1941, a 43-year-old German soldier named Heinrich Jöst (Heinrich Jöst) of the Luftwaffe Supply Corps took more than 150 photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto over several days. Other photos of Warsaw and his military career were laid out in a handsome leather-bound album labeled “The Warsaw Ghetto, a cultural document for Adolf Hitler.” Of the album's 109 photographs, 56 were of the ghetto. Some of the photos were taken from cars, or soldiers came to the ghetto on a cold but sunny day in a car, got out of the car somewhere in the ghetto, and walked around on foot. What we do not know the exact date of the photos, we can guess as 1941. Taken outdoors, they depict all the suffering and difficult conditions in the ghetto. Many of the photographs show people lying in the streets, children begging, and the misery that covered the streets of the ghetto.

　Heinrich Jöst survived World War II. For decades, he never said a word to anyone about his collection of photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto, until 1982, when he broke his silence and showed them to Günter Schwarberg of Stern magazine. Some of them were published in the photo book “In the Warsaw Ghetto” (Im Ghetto von Warschau).