Jews rounded up for forced labor by the Gestapo in Warsaw – Press photo – March 1940

Large press photo showing a group of Jews being led by the Gestapo in Warsaw after the Nazi invasion. Described on the reverse on an attached paper slip: “German terror in Warsaw – A recently taken photo in Warsaw, a tormented city, shows a miserable group of Polish Jews being led by Gestapo agents.” Photo agency: Keystone. Warsaw, March 1940.

The Jews seen in the photo were rounded up for forced labor at a work site on Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. This is one of the most well-known photographs documenting the beginning of forced labor imposed on the Jews in the city of Warsaw, even before the establishment of the ghetto (which was created in November of that same year) following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland.