More than any other photos, this famous photograph captures the essence of the horrors of Holocaust: Warsaw 1943, a little Jewish boy, dressed in short trousers and a cap, raises his arms in surrender with lowered eyes, as a Nazi soldier trains his machine gun on him ..
The photo has come to symbolize the suffering of the entire Jewish people during the Holocaust. Who was this little boy? Did he survive World War 2?
After the war the photograph appeared in files, exhibitions, magazines, books, newspaper articles on the Holocaust and television documentary programs. And millions of people were brought to believe that the frightened little boy of this poignant photograph was murdered, too. As Washington Post commented: The photograph goes right to the heart - no doubt the boy, like millions of other Jews, was killed by the Nazis ...
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