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Photographing Poland's Entire Population

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 3, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 38.

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Photographing Poland's Entire Population

— A German photographer of Breslau was given an order some time ago to photograph the entire population of Poland, as the photographs were necessary for the passports issued to inhabitants of the occupied districts. Several hundred assistant photographers have been traveling from town to town, taking pictures of all inhabitants, and more than 300 men and women have been kept busy in the main studio developing and printing the photographs. Orthodox Jews and Polish peasants have a great aversion to posing for their photographs, and the camera men encounter considerable opposition. Soldiers and policemen go along with them to induce their subjects to hold still and “look pleasant.”