An Item on display
Executions – by Ernest Sydney Philpot
Oil on canvas, 1943
Ernest Philpot (1906-1985) was an Australian artist. He made this painting in Australia during the war.
Source: MHM, courtesy of Dr Joseph Brown, AO, OBE
Mass Executions
Mass open-air shooting of Jews was the first method the Nazis used to kill Jews in large numbers.
German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labour Service look on as a member of a mobile killing squad (Einsatzgruppe) prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses.
An Item on display
Executions – by Ernest Sydney Philpot
Oil on canvas, 1943
Ernest Philpot (1906-1985) was an Australian artist. He made this painting in Australia during the war.
Source: MHM, courtesy of Dr Joseph Brown, AO, OBE
Mass open-air shooting of Jews was the first method the Nazis used to kill Jews in large numbers.