Figures carrying heavy loads Accession Number: ART90352

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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.

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Accession Number
ART90352
Artist
Bernard Slawik
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: charcoal, pencil on paper
Measurement
Overall
Medium
charcoal, pencil on paper
Date Made
c 1943
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
purchased 1995
Copyright
AWM Licensed copyright

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