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Actions Displays	Bloody Wednesday Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2005/027:002 TitleBloody Wednesday DescriptionBlack and white photograph depicting a scene of a German reprisal, in the town square of Olkusz, Poland, where 20 Polish people were shot for assassination of a German Police officer by a partisan in 1940. Later the Germans also shot many Jews and more Poles. It became known as "Bloody Wednesday". Production placePoland Production date 1940 Subjectdeportation, nazi cruelty, transportation Object namephotographs Materialphotographic emulsion, paper, paper Techniquephotography Dimensions width: 85.00 mm height: 60.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Walter Ziegler

Object numberM2005/027:002

TitleBloody Wednesday

DescriptionBlack and white photograph depicting a scene of a German reprisal, in the town square of Olkusz, Poland, where 20 Polish people were shot for assassination of a German Police officer by a partisan in 1940. Later the Germans also shot many Jews and more Poles. It became known as "Bloody Wednesday".

Production placePoland

Production date 1940

Subjectdeportation, nazi cruelty, transportation

Object namephotographs

Materialphotographic emulsion, paper, paper

Techniquephotography

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Walter Ziegler

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