The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A camp guard standing with a whip in front of the bunk beds in the Janowska concentration camp, Lvov. Janowska's smaller barracks had three-storey bunks and the larger barracks had five-storey bunks with ladders leading to the overfloors. The distance between the levels was so small that it was near impossible to sit on them. The beds consisted of wooden planks lightly placed together. Because the prisoners were packed so tightly, they were forced to rest on their sides. There were no toilets in the barracks. Some barracks had buckets but they soon overfilled. Dysentery and disease was rampant in the barracks as a result of the unsanitary conditions. At nightime the prisoners were forbidden to go out to the toilet. The barracks were patrolled by the Askaris (Polish, Russian or Ukrainian guards) who wielded guns and leather whips. These whips each had pieces of lead sown onto the ends. The back inscription of this work translates as 'Sleeping bunks. The people are coming to get them out and the music plays.' Music was played by the camp orchestra which was made up of sixty inmates who had been professional musicians. Music was played when men went to and from work. The 'death tango' as it was known by the prisoners, was played at public hangings and as the prisoners marched to the execution grounds for shooting. In the lower right corner the artist has dated and initialed his liberation name. The year is 1942.
Janowska's smaller barracks had three-storey bunks and the larger barracks had five-storey bunks with ladders leading to the overfloors. The distance between the levels was so small that it was almost
Three naked women before they were shot at Janowska concentration camp, Poland. At first Janowska had no female inmates but after the massive 'actions' of 1942 a female barracks was established. Altho
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 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
This image shows long-haired naked women before they were shot. Janowska at first had no female inmates but after massive 'actions' of 1942 a female barracks was established. Although female hair was
The Janowska Concentration Camp in Poland was established in 1941 as a forced labour camp for Jewish people and a minority of non-Jewish criminals from the city of Lvov. No children under 12 years old
