Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: GULLERS, K.W.
Event Date: ca. 1945
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.111897

Inscriptions:
A cruel example of Gestapo torture methods in Denmark: this picture was/ taken 11 month after [11 months after underlined] this Danish woman has been tortured at Vestre Fangsel/ (Gestapo Prison) in Copenhagen. Those round marks on her back are the result/ of burning cigarettes, pressed into her back. The stripes on her back are/ still marks of beating with a dog-whip.As the Danish girls are blonde, this girl/ no blonde, is a Jewish-Danish girl

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; 1 person; Back; Day; Female; Flagellation; Health; Indoors; Injury; Landscape; No Photostyle; Skin; Skin Eruptions; Social issues; Still Life; Toplessness; Unrest, conflicts and war; Waist-Up Portrait; Woman; World War II; Wound; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII / PALESTINE
Retouching: N