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The board shows Abraham Rotfarb's attitude to the family's way of earning money. In his autobiography, on which the comic book is based, we read: "And it is strange that my work, although it counts as light, is more tiring and exhausting than hard physical one." He asks himself: "Where to go? ... What to do?" What to think? […] What's next?". He is bitterly thinking: "You may be offended [...] because you have no prisons to punish those who for nothing [...] insulted and beat you." The comic book creator presented these Abraham’s considerations as follows - the boy looks at the windows and instead of his own sees the snout of a lost dog. The recollection motif that appears at the bottom of the board: wandering the streets, Abraham often meets a friend with whom they were inseparable in their childhood. He wrote about it in his autobiography: “Today I often see Moszek on the street. We look at each other, but as if we don't know each other or are angry with each other. He's a poor man; he wears rags and is said to be a porter”. In his autobiography Abraham states bitterly: "Ah, how far we are from real life, from the broad social world, from its lively pulse!"

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Information about the object
Author / creator
Wróbel, Olga (1982- )
Powalisz, Monika (1973- )
Object type
visual work
Time of creation / dating
21st century
Place of creation
Warszawa (mazovian province)
Technique
painter’s
manual script
Material
paper
aquarel paint
ink
Keywords
Copyright status
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Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-M262
Localization
The object is not currently on display