Rare colour photograph of Jewish boys during Holocaust

[A] rare colour photograph of Jewish boys huddled together outside a ghetto soup kitchen brings the horror of the Holocaust into sharp focus.

The picture was taken in the Łódz ghetto in central Poland, which was set up by the Nazis in 1939-40. Tens of thousands of Jews and Roma gypsies were sent from Łódz to their deaths. Many of the boys in the photograph did not survive the war.

It is one of many harrowing images taken from The Holocaust: A New History, by Doris Bergen. Using testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, the book gives a detailed account of Nazi genocide and says that the death of six million Jews was"only half the story" - the disabled, French-African soldiers, Soviet prisoners of war, non-Jewish Poles, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexual men were also victims of the Holocaust.