''Staging Point'' () is one of five drawings depicting the life of children in the

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in the collection of the

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, Warsaw. The author of the drawings is an unknown draftsman, but they are signed "Rozenfeld". The drawing was made, most probably, between autumn and winter of 1941 and commissioned as part of the Ringelblum Archive - which has been inscribed in the UNESCO

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in 1999. The drawing is set at 5/7 Stawki Street, which was used to hold Jewish children arrested by the " Blue police" outside the ghetto district. The "staging point" was the place where arrested children would wait for their parents, who were obliged to pay a fine. Orphans would instead be sent to an orphanage. The drawing depicts a group of seven children arrested by the

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for the crime of smuggling food.

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* Rozenfeld's drawings i
Central Jewish Library
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