Title from caption on object: “Warsaw Poles Surrender”

October 1944

Unknown 20th Century

Associated Names
Unknown, 20th Century

Artist

ACME Newspictures

Publisher

This is a photograph of a crowded gathering with numerous figures, some obscured, and others in motion. The image is in black and white. The figures display a range of emotions. In the foreground, a body is being carried by the crowd, its face turned upward and eyes closed. The background is chaotic with other figures blending together.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 14.4 × 21 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 16 × 22.9 cm (6 5/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.345

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

upper center Acme copyright stamp in black ink; upper right printed in black ink on applied label: ner 05695; by unknown hand, center left in blue ink perpendicular: A10820; lower left in blue ink perpendicular and underlined: Poland; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: WARSAW POLES SURRENDER / RADIOED TO LONDON FROM A NEUTRAL SOURCE AND / JUST RECEIVED IN NEW YORK THIS PHOTO GRAPHICALLY / DEPICTS THE TRAGEDY AND SUFFERING OF THE / PEOPLE OF WARSAW WHEN THE PREMATURE UPRISING / BY THE RESISTANCE GROUP WAS QUELLED BY THE / NAZI HORDES. STARVED AND WAR-WEARY POLISH / PEOPLE ARE HERDED TOGETHER BEFORE REMOVAL BY / THE NAZIS AFTER FINAL SURRENDER. / FULL DJH / CREDIT LINE (ACME) 10/25/44 (RM)

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