Photograph
Extent and Medium
1 Photographic print,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lidia Siciarz
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Ms. Lidia K. Siciarz
Scope and Content
Photographic image; black and white image of nuns and young girls harvesting wheat in the field; (donor notes: during early spring and fall, the older girls in the orphanage worked in the field while younger and weaker girls, like herself, worked peeling potatoes and washing floors and windows; the girls working in the field received an additional ration of bread); dated: summer 1943; location: Lomna, Poland
Genre
- Document