The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two views of the Lvov ghetto upper and centre. The lower drawing shows a group of people rounded up after an 'aktion'. The 'aktions' were organised SS raids on the ghettos where the Jews would be searched, rounded up and massacred in nearby fields or transferred to Janowska. The raids were carried out with brutal precision. In the upper two drawings "After the aktion' and 'Alone' the ghetto barracks are sketched as shanty huts. The ghetto was in the poorest, most derelict part of Lvov and lacked municipal sewage, water and electricity. The original inhabitants had been evacuated by order to make way for the Jews. On any given day the old, sick, orphaned, males or females over certain ages could be rounded up in the 'aktion' and never be seen again.
A survivor of the Holocaust, Bernard Slawik escaped from Janowska concentration camp in Lvov, in occupied Poland, a transit point for Jews being taken to the gas chambers of Belzec, near Lublin. The t
The pile of shoes have been taken from the casualties in the Jewish concentration camp of Janowska, and show with horror the growing rate of deaths. Other inmates observe their fate as silent witness
A Jewish synagogue being burned by the Nazis in Poland. Several figures are watching the scene. The atmosphere is one of shock and disbelief. The buildings around the burning synagogue are reminiscent
The shacks around the burning synagogue remind one of the ghetto. The artist served on the committee for the preservation of Jewish monuments in Lvov before the war. He also wrote a PhD documenting sy
This drawing shows the cattle cars loading human freight at the Kleparow train station for their journey to the gas chambers at Belzec. Kleparow was on the outside edge of Janowska. The harsh black li
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 towe
