The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The death march from Janowska along a single road that led to the "The Sands'. The prisoners are herded together by SS guards and walk with their heads bowed toward the ravine where they will be executed outside Lvov in Poland. The guards bearing semi-automatic machine guns order the prisoners to link arms and forbid them to talk or look about. Usually, the victims stood at the edge of the ravine and were then shot in the back of their heads by the SS. They were then kicked into the fires which would cremate evidence of their existence. Hundreds of prisoners could be murdered in this way on any given day at Janowska. Often at the end of the working day, whole work brigades would be led to 'The Sands' and executed. It was not uncommon for prisoners to throw themselves into the burning flames as a way of avoiding any further pain and degradation. 'The death march' was re-drawn after the war (1947). This revised image formalises the drama of the death march by heightening the contrast between light and shadow and by increasing the linearity of the figures and the horizon line.
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
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 sear
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 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
Death March provides overarching critical commentary on suffering and the loss of life caused by conflicts in the twentieth century. It is undated but believed to have been painted in the early 1970s,
