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Actions Displays	They Think Freedom can be Jailed Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM1992/003:002 TitleThey Think Freedom can be Jailed Creator Noel Counihan (artist)‎ DescriptionBlack and white lino-cut print of two posts of a barbed wire fence. The artist, Noel Counihan, a prominent Australian painter, visited Poland in 1949, where he saw the Stutthof and Auschwitz concentration camps. The experience prompted him to create a folio of lino-cuts titled "War or Peace" which included "The Factory of Death" (M1992/003:001) and "They Think Freedom can be Jailed" (M1992/003:002). Production date 1950 SubjectHolocaust, concentration camps, artists, barbed wire Object nameprints Materialpaper Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Harry Stein

Object numberM1992/003:002

TitleThey Think Freedom can be Jailed

DescriptionBlack and white lino-cut print of two posts of a barbed wire fence. The artist, Noel Counihan, a prominent Australian painter, visited Poland in 1949, where he saw the Stutthof and Auschwitz concentration camps. The experience prompted him to create a folio of lino-cuts titled "War or Peace" which included "The Factory of Death" (M1992/003:001) and "They Think Freedom can be Jailed" (M1992/003:002).

Production date 1950

SubjectHolocaust, concentration camps, artists, barbed wire

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Harry Stein

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