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12 hours in hall 12. Lunch
Franciszek Znamirowski1943/1945
Polish History Museum
Warszawa, Poland
This drawing depicts lunch in the Messerschmitt hall. It is entitled: “A sad muselman" (from the German word Muselmann). That was the term for extremely exhausted prisoners, who were close to starvation. watercolour painting by Franciszek Znamirowski
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- Title: 12 hours in hall 12. Lunch
- Creator: Franciszek Znamirowski
- Date: 1943/1945
- Location: Gusen, Upper Austria, Austria
- Contributor: Bernhard Lübbers
- Original Source: Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg, 999 Gr/4Rat.civ.388
- Credit: Die Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg (the Regional State Library for Regensburg).
- Copyright: Watercolor by Franciszek Znamirowski, photograph by Adam Grochowski (former prisoner of Gusen), copyright: Die Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg (the Regional State Library for Regensburg).
- Collection: "Überleben durch Kunst" Franciszek Znamirowski: Gusen – album.
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