A Jewish photographer's rare images of an early Holocaust transport are now online 13 recently published pictures covertly taken in Breslau, Silesia, in November 1941 show one of Germany's first deportations of Jews through the lens of the victims and not the Nazis By ROBERT PHILPOT LONDON — Unique and chilling images of one of the first deportations of German Jews from their homes during World War II have been published for the first time by a Berlin-based international research project. The set of 13 pictures — discovered by chance in an archive in Dresden by historian Steffen Heidrich — were taken clandestinely. They are believed to be the only ones chronicling a deportation captured by a Jewish photographer. The photos show hundreds of Jewish men and women — from elderly people in wheelchairs to young children grasping their parents' hands — being rounded up and herded into a beer garden in Breslau, Silesia, on November 21, 1941. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union that summer, Hitler ordered the deportation of 300,000 "Reich Jews" to the East in September 1941. "The images from Breslau are one of the most valuable findings of such photographs in recent years," says Dr. Alina Bothe, director of Freie Universität's #LastSeen project. "For the first time, we have a sequence of photos in which a persecuted photographer documents the deportation systematically. Their existence is an act of resistance to Nazi annihilation." A Jewish photographer's rare images of an early Holocaust transport are now online | The Times of Israel |