UTW 9

Two girls sitting on a Warsaw ghetto sidewalk

Art: 1992
Media: Ink
Framed, 25 inches H x 28 ¼ W

Drawn from a Warsaw Ghetto photo taken by Nazi soldier Heinz Jost. [Also see UTW 7, 20, 33]
The girl on the right appears to be blind. Both were sitting on the sidewalk. 
Jost's photo caption stated: 

"It was the 19th of September and a cold day when I took these pictures of two girls in Krochmalna Street. One could see they they were sick and had no more strength to live."   

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The birds wings were drawn in the Ornithology lab, Burke Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.