Title from caption on object: “First Jewish Slave Girls Camp Liberated”
April 1945
Artist, British, 1900 - 1981
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 9.3 × 13.9 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
sheet: 10.4 × 15.2 cm (4 1/8 × 6 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.372
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, center printed in purple ink on applied paper: Newspaper Pool Photo. No. 403336. / FIRST JEWISH SLAVE GIRLS CAMP LIBERATED / These sturdy Jewish girls, were taken to the / slave workers camp at Kaunitz, Germany, were / liberated by the 9th., Army. They were forced by / the Nazis to work in a German munition factory. / They come from Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, / Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc., Each has a yellow / cross on the back, and everyone of them, even the / children have been tattooed on the left arm with / their numbers. The yellow was just dabbed on with / a paint brush by the Germans.; lower center stamped in red ink: 14 MAY 1945; lower center stamped in red ink and crossed out in grease pencil: WAR FILE