The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 impossible to sit on them. The beds consisted of wooden planks lightly placed together. Because the prisoners were packed in 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 were rampant in the barracks as a result of unsanitary conditions. At nighttime the prisoners were forbidden to go out to the toilet.
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 w
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
Forced movement of Australian and British prisoners with their belongings to Selarang Barracks on 2 September 1942. Over 15,000 prisoners were concentrated in the square by the Japanese General Fukuye
In the background of this work are the Changi gaol buildings and in the foreground are the attap huts that housed POW officers, including Murray Griffin. Initially the AIF prisoners were housed at Sel
Portrait of Japanese prisoner of war, Aizawa Torayoshi, made after the Japanese surrender. The Japanese gradually emerged from different parts of the Bougainville jungle and surrendered to the Austral
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
