Objects

The black and white representation (many shades of grey) of five mattresses and fabrics with which the Krzyształowski family furnished the hiding place of their hidden family - doctor Elias Bander, his wife Regina née Zielonka and their little son Myron.

The picture was used as an montage in an account by Irena Senderska-Rzońca née Krzyształowska. Her parents, Józef and Helena Krzyształowski, hid the Bandera family on their farm in Borysław for over six months in an attic - low, 70 centimetres high, but with a floor which their father had his children wash and on which he spread blankets and mattresses to keep them warm in winter. The attic was in a multi-family house, so the insulation also soundproofed the space. See the description of hiding: https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/story-krzysztalowski-family; see also fragments of the account: https://sztetl.org.pl/en/oral-history/138463-irena-senderska-rzonca

The objects in the drawing are lying on top of each other, side by side. The two largest, mattresses, are light; another object, closest to the bottom left corner, is darker, greyish, unevenly; the two darkest are further apart: one on the left, the other, in a dark checkered pattern, closer to the bottom right corner.