The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 witnesses. The artist makes his intention explicit by including skulls as symbols. Janowska, like many other concentration camps, piled the shoes, clothes, documents and bodies of its victims. This image was particularly common after the war when photographers entered the liberated camps. The Janowska forced labour camp was situated in the city of Lvov, Poland in Eastern Galicia. It was seen as a model camp of cruelty and was a training centre for Nazi officers. Established late in 1941 as a forced labour camp for Jews and a minority of non-Jewish criminals. The Lvov Ghetto provided much of the labour force for Janowska. At the outset, Janowska consisted of a number of factories manufacturing armaments. By mid 1943 it had evolved into an extermination camp while also serving as a transit camp in which thousands of Jews passed on their way to the gas chambers at Belzec. It is estimated that between 300,000 and 400,000 Jews passed through Janowska.
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 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
Janowska, like many other concentration camps, piled the shoes, clothes, documents and bodies of its victims. This image was particularly common after the war when photographers entered the liberated
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
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
The shacks around the burning synagogue remind one of the ghetto. The artist served on the committee for the preservation of Jewish monuments in Lvov before the war. He also wrote a PhD documenting sy