Arnold Mostowicz, 87; Wrote About Holocaust

Arnold Mostowicz, 87, who treated victims of Nazi brutality in one of Poland’s largest ghettos during World War II and chronicled his experience in several books, died Feb. 3 in Warsaw after a long illness.

Born in the central Poland city of Lodz, which before World War II was the home of the country’s second-largest Jewish community, Mostowicz treated fellow Jews who were forced into the Lodz ghetto.

He also played an active role in the Resistance movement. After the ghetto was eliminated, he was sent to Auschwitz.

Mostowicz worked as a journalist and author after the war. He gained international attention for writing and narrating a 1999 documentary about the Lodz ghetto called “Fotoamator” (“The Photographer”).

The film was based on 400 color slides taken by Walter Genewein, who was the Austrian chief accountant of the Lodz ghetto for the Nazis. The pictures were discovered in 1987.