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© Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Overview
    Title
    Female workers sewing
    Date
    1940-1944
    Medium
    gelatin silver print
    Dimensions
    9 x 14 cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
    Credit Line
    Gift from Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007
    Object Number
    2007/2128
    Type of object
    Photograph
  • Inscriptions and marks
    Inscriptions

    Inscribed in ink on verso: PRZY PRACY

    Markings

    Copyright stamp on verso: Foto Henryk Ross (Tel-Aviv - Jaffo, 402/6, Tel: 66634)

  • Extended Label

    "Besides the hard work [my mother] does in the workshop, she gets a bit more work from a woman who makes undergarments. My mother's face looks terrible. She walks like a shadow from so much work... I always see her bent over the sewing machine."

    - "Diary of a youth in the ghetto," March 11, 1942

    During residents' first year of confinement in the Lodz Ghetto, the Nazis permitted them to bake matzos. In the following years, Jewish traditions and cultural practices were restricted or wholly eliminated, and the Nazis pushed residents to produce goods for markets outside of the ghetto.

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