Jewish Woman Seeking Refuge from Nazi Menace During "Polish Action"

Authors

Object ID

2016.1.40

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

12-22-1938

Files

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Description

Front: woman sitting on steps with head in hand, a tag ‘247’ hangs from her sleeve; Back: handwriting in pencil and date handstamp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

As the Nazi noose tightens, the number of Jews seeking refuge through the 1930s increases exponentially, even as there are few countries willing to admit them. This woman’s expression embodies the frustration of the prospective Jewish émigré who is frantically attempting to find shelter from the Nazi storm, in this case a Polish-born Jew living in Germany who is one of 17,000 Jews rounded up and loaded in sealed railway cars and driven across the Polish border by SS men in October 1938.

Dimensions

9 7/8 x 6 1/4"

Keywords

Refugees

Subcollection

Early, Polenaktion

Recommended Citation

"Jewish Woman Seeking Refuge from Nazi Menace During "Polish Action"" (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2016.1.40.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1300