Stuart and Martha Bindeman photograph collection

Nathan Koenig was a journalist with an agricultural expertise. During World War II he wrote a column for the "Washington Jewish Review;" the column was largely concerned with Jews in Europe. In 1945 he was appointed the Executive Assistant to the United States Secretary of agriculture. In that capacity he accompanied a delegation to Poland where he took photographs of concentration camps, the city of Warsaw, Poland, in ruins, and agricultural areas. The collection consists of nine film negatives of bombed and ruined buildings in Warsaw, Poland, and two film negatives of Majdanek concentration camp.