Heinrich Jöst was a sergeant in the German Wehrmacht stationed near Warsaw in September 1941. Out of curiosity, Jöst spent one day--'a day in Hell'-- shooting rolls of film with his rolleiflex. He developed the pictures, hiding them for decades. In 1982 he gave these images to Stern magazine reporter Gunther Schwarberg, who, in turn, bequeathed them to the Yad Vashem memorial site in Jersualem, which acknowledged the trove as a 'unique find' equal insignificance to the founding of the Holocaust Memorial Institute itself. This is the first time these images have been published in their entirety.
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