Man Prepares to Commit Suicide

A man perched on the ledge outside of a 4th story window prepares to commit suicide by jumping rather than be captured by the SS on the fourth day of the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The original German caption reads: "Bandits jump to escape arrest."
Photo credit: Polish National Archives

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