UTW 14

Child with soup-plate in the Warsaw ghetto

Art: 1993
Media: Ink
Framed, 42 inches H x 29 ¾ W

The drawing of the child was inspired by a photo in the book The 45th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, published by Interpress, Warsaw, 1988. It is seen in the chapter Children / Dzieci. [The book title in Polish: Warszawskie Ghetto -1943-1988 w 45 Rocznicę Powstania / Wydawnictwo – Interpress Publishers]. The photo this was drawn from shows a child standing behind the one depicted. The child may have been in a ghetto soup kitchen or orphanage. The other child in the photo was portrayed among the victims seen in UTW 35: Claustrophobia in the Warsaw ghetto.

The wing was drawn at the ornithology lab, Burke Museum of Natural History, University of Washington, Seattle.

Bibliography: Reproduced on the cover of Jewish Currents, March-April 2008, a quarterly journal.

UTW 14 Child soup-plate exhibits list

• Broadway Market, Seattle. The exhibit of UTW drawings was part of the Anne Frank & Friends Coalition programs held in Seattle and King County (1994)

• Temple Beth Am, Seattle (1997)

• Seattle Central Community College, Art Gallery (1998)

• Jewish Federations of the United States national conference, Seattle Convention Center (1998)

• Fairwood Branch, King County Library System, Wash. (1998)

• Pacific Lutheran University, Mortvedt Library, Tacoma, WA (2003)

• Western Illinois University, Art Gallery, Macomb (2004)

• Illinois Wesleyan University, Ames Library (2006)

• Stephens College, Davis Art Gallery, Columbia, Missouri (2006)

• Washington State University, Art Gallery, Tri-Cities (2007)