Title from caption on object: “Too Weak to Walk after Liberation”

April 1945

Edward George Malindine

Artist, British, 1906 - 1970

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 25.5 × 19.3 cm (10 1/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 26.2 × 20.8 cm (10 5/16 × 8 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.369

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: [4/]21/45 / 8P; upper center: Weak [circled] / Mon. p.p. [underlined]; upper right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: APR 23 1945; center left printed in applied photo paper perpendicular: (NY11-APRIL 21)--TOO WEAK TO WALK AFTER LIBERATION--HIS FACE / REGISTERING AGONY THIS INTERNEE AT THE BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, / 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF HANNOVER, GERMANY, SITS ON A MOUND--TOO WEAK / TO WALK--AFTER THE CAMP WAS CAPTURED BY BRITISH FORCES. THIS IS/ AN OFFICIAL BRITISH PHOTO. (AP WIREPHOTO BY RADIO FROM LONDON / TODAY) (EEH7155590P-P1) 1945; center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular; center right stamped in red ink: FEB 6 1990; lower right stamped in purple ink: APR 23 1946

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