Place | Europe: Poland |
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Accession Number | ART90360 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet 23 x 29.4 cm (irreg.); image 20.4 x 25 cm (irreg.) |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil 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 |
Re-seeding the fields of death
Description
In this sketch we see two sets of barbed wire fences and a sentry tower. These fences were used to isolate the men's barracks at the Janowska concentration camp. Altogether there were four sentry towers posted around the perimeter of these barracks. The two figures standing on the mound are scattering grass seed. The object outside the fence seems to be a plough or a barrow. At Janowska, men, not horses ploughed the fields. This image confirms the final step in obliterating all evidence of the existence of the Jews and making it "Judenrein" (clean of Jews). After corpses were exhumed and incinerated the earth was re-ploughed and re-sown as if nothing had taken place.