A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found
![This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski shows Jewish people being evacuated from the Warsaw Ghetto.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/01/21/ap23018608950076_wide-68edcdc28e64f5487e06a55127274e09f5144e29.jpg?s=600)
The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a 23-year-old Polish firefighter as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Jewish uprising of 1943. The photos were discovered in a family collection.
(Image credit: Z. L. Grzywaczewski/Maciej Grzywaczewski/POLIN Museum via AP)
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