The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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. Although female hair was removed at camps with gas chambers, Janowska and some smaller concentration camps skipped this procedure. Before prisoners were to be executed at 'The Sands' they were commanded to undress quickly. The 'death tango' would have been played at this time by the camp orchestra (sixty professional musicians). The brutal treatment of all the prisoners in Janowska left prisoners with little hope. They knew that death was inevitable. The human skulls in this image act as a reminder of the overwhelming sense of death's presence experienced by the prisoners.
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
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
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
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
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 lines surrounded by the s
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
