Lithograph, The famous drudgery
Description
Background is a large three story building, many windows. To its left a smaller building with smoke coming from a stack. Middle ground covered with snow, snow covers the trees. Foreground with small hut-like building behind a number of men struggling to pull a cart of cement blocks on railroad tracks. Guard holding metal rod in his right hand, arm raised above his head ready to strike someone. *Hand printed front bottom left corner: "A La carrier...P. Mania" *Printed on back, black ink: "La fameuse corvee des wagonners a la carriere. Le nombre des Deportes morts dans ces corvees est formidable"
Object Information
Local ID:
H.4040.2
Provenance:
This lithograph is from the book, Buchenwald Scenes sur le vif horreurs [translation] Buchenwald: scenes taken from Nazi horrors: 78 plates / drawings by A. Favier, P. Mania, Boris, preface by C. Pineau, texts by P. Mania. The book was published in Lyon, France in 1946. A portfolio of pages from the book was a gift from the "People of France" to the "People of America" in 1949. It was among the collections that arrived on the French Merci Train in the box-car destined for Colorado. Gifts from that car were distributed to libraries and museums in every county throughout the state by the Colorado governor William Knous through a committee he organized for that purpose named the Governor's Citizens Committee.
Place of Creation/Discovery:
Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany
Credit Line:
Gift of Governor's Citizens Committee, collected from Merci Train
Dimensions:
15" x 11"
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated
