Gay Block
Zofia Baniecka, Poland

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Artist Gay Block (American, born 1942)American, born 1942

CultureAmerican

Titles

Zofia Baniecka, Poland
from the series Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

Date1986, printed 1994

PlacePoland

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 17 1/4 × 14 1/8 in. (43.8 × 35.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Clinton T. Willour in honor of Eve France

Object number94.807

Non exposé

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Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by LGBTQ Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description“I was a liaison for the Underground. I was afraid but I had to do it; I’ve always been independent and patriotic. During the war we hid guns as well as people in our flat. We made divisions with curtains: behind each curtain was a different Jewish family. When our house was full or when I was tipped off that we would be visited by Nazis I found other hiding places for the Jews. . . . It is important for people to know that there were those of us in Poland who did try to save Jews.”
—Zofia Baniecka
ProvenanceClinton T. Willour, Houston; given to MFAH, 1994.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Title and series title in black ink, lower left corner, verso.

Signed and dated in black ink, lower right corner, verso: "Gay Block 1986-94".

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