Everyday life of the Jewish population in occupied Poland (1940)

Naked Orthodox Jewish men and women enter the ablution pool, immerse themselves in the water, and emerge from the pool before the circumcision ceremony.

A mother with her baby lies on a bed.

A relative takes the baby from the mother and hands it to the rabbi's assistant.

The rabbi's assistant carries the baby into the room where the rabbi and the circumcision participants are waiting and places the baby on the lap of another rabbi's assistant.

The baby is unswaddled.

The circumcision of the baby is performed, and the foreskin is removed.

The rabbi performs a religious ceremony over the circumcised baby, moistening its lips with wine.

The rabbi drinks wine from a glass.

The baby is handed over to the rabbi's assistant, who carries it away.

People selling things on the street in the Jewish quarter.

Selling candy.

A woman stands at the door of a shop selling used baby strollers.

People wearing white armbands with the Star of David on their sleeves stand on the sidewalk, vendors stand against the wall of a building.

People on a street, selling things by hand.

A woman bargains with a customer, taking money.

A seller of ladies' hats offers her wares to passersby.

A young man and woman conduct small-scale street trading.

A stall selling kosher meat at the market, a panorama of hardware stores.

The hands of a vendor sorting through old keys lying in trays.

The vendor hands the customer the right key, but the customer is dissatisfied.

Hardware in one of the stalls, a vendor in the stall.

A man sells used metal kitchenware, arranging his goods.

A panorama of vegetable and hardware stalls in one of the market rows (from above).