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The new influx of refugees to Bangladesh led to the rapid expansion of refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, now the largest refugee settlement on earth
Our new exhibition, A Chance to Breathe: Photographs by Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar Camps, provides a rare glimpse of Rohingya life
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When the ghetto was liquidated in 1944, Grosman was deported to a subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Königs Wusterhausen
Shortly before the end of the war, he was shot on a death march north of Berlin
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His position as an official photographer allowed him to secretly and prolifically document the life and death of the ghetto inhabitants. At great personal risk, he distributed and hid as many prints and negatives as he could to preserve them for posterity...
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Mendel Grosman was a Jewish-Polish artist and photographer. Upon the German occupation of Poland, Grosman was interned in the Łódź Ghetto
He found work in the photo section of the Jewish Council's statistics department, documenting the Council's work for the German Ghetto Administration...