The Good Samaritan
Rembrandt’s landscape had it right: in a small corner in dark woods, the naked, half-dead man slung across a saddle blanket is held by the left hand of the Samaritan, half-hidden behind the horse. A horrified well-dressed couple in cloaks and floppy hats looks on while nearby a hunter, fully absorbed, aims his rifle high up a massive oak, accompanied by his boy. Hans Frank, Governor-General of occupied Poland, made it a crime to feed a Jew or house one overnight or give a lift, punishable by quick death as with Jósef and Wiktoria Ulma shot after the...
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