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Accession Number | ART90354 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 21.9 x 27.2 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil, charcoal on paper |
Maker |
Slawik, Bernard |
Place made | Poland: Lwow |
Date made | c 1943 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Carrying heavy loads
Description
Many of the work brigades were given jobs with no practical purpose. Jobs included moving bricks and wooden beams from place to place while Nazi officers whipped, tortured and shouted at the prisoners. 'Unskilled labourers' such as lawyers, rabbis, teachers etc. were given the worst back-breaking jobs and met their deaths soon after their arrival in Janowska. In the lower image of three inmates talking, there is another image beneath it which is just apparent. One can just make out figures carrying long beams above their shoulders.