Szczury (Rats) (three female heads)

Siemaszko, Olga (1911-2000)

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Olga Siemaszko's works: the "Hand of the Dead" project
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A contour drawing of three human heads, probably deceased prisoners of the Auschwitz camp. In the volume "Ręka umarłej" (Hand of a Deceased) printed at the top of page 54 (in fact, the object in the author's archive was located, with an additional backing, in a passe-partout with an inscription in pencil indicating this page). In print, it was incorporated into the text of a story in which the heroine-narrator works in the barracks for the sick and in one of them she sees a body slightly eaten by rats; she later finds their nest. The story does not mention any other bodies seen by the heroine that day.

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Information about the object
Author/creator
Siemaszko, Olga (1911-2000)
Object type
drawing
Time of creation/dating
1970
Place of creation
Warszawa (mazovian province) ( dane niepewne )
Technique
drawn
Material
paper
ink
Keywords
Nazi camps
The Holocaust
writers
March 1968 (1968-1972)
actors
death
Copyrights status
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Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-M1617
Localization
The object is not currently on display
The purchase of work for the POLIN Museum's collection was subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for Promotion of Culture - a state purpose fund, program: National Collection of Contemporary Art.