Drawing Strength: The Art of the Holocaust Part II

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1 FSU Holocaust Institute for Educators Drawing Strength: The Art of the Holocaust Part II Dr. David Gussak Asst. Professor, Art Education/Art Therapy

2 Humor

3 Jacques Ochs The SS Guard Ferdekopf 1944 Mechelen Camp Pencil on Paper (An unflattering caricature that would have resulted in dangerous repercussions)

4 Jacques Ochs The SS Guard Ferdekopf 1944 Mechelen Camp Pencil on Paper

5 Anonymous Birthday Card, from the Gardening Kommando 1944 ink and watercolor on cardboard Auschwitz-Birkenau

6 Pavel Fantl A Transport of Rich Jews 1942 ink and watercolor on paper Theresienstadt Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Art Museum, Jerusalem

7 Pavel Fantl Metamorphosis 1944 ink and watercolor on paper Theresienstadt Ironically, several months after he drew this cartoon, depicting the wasting away of a ghetto resident, Pavel was sent to Auschwitz where he was subsequently killed.

8 Portraiture: Keeping Them Alive

9 Franciszek Jazwiecki Portrait of Langendam pencil and crayon on cardboard Auschwitz-Birkenau

10 Franciszek Jazwiecki Portrait of Putylin pencil and crayon on cardboard Auschwitz-Birkenau

11 Franciszek Jazwiecki Portrait of an Unknown Prisoner, pencil and crayon on cardboard Auschwitz-Birkenau

12 Wincenty Gawron Musing About Freedom 1942 Pencil on Paper Auschwitz-Birkenau

13 Wincenty Gawron Portrait of a Woman crayon on paper Auschwitz-Birkenau

14 Gela Seksztajn Self-Portrait Charcoal on paper This self-portrait was completed in the Warsaw Ghetto. The year when this piece was completed was unknown. However, Gela was deported to Treblinka and was killed in 1942 at the age of 35.

15 Max van Dam A Jewish Woman In Hiding Year-Unknown Charcoal on paper Blaricum, Holland (Max died in image completed while in hiding)

16 Aizik-Adolphe Féder Boy with a Yellow Star Holding a Tin Can, charcoal and pastel on gray cardboard Art Collection - Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters' House Museum), Israel

17 Art of the Children

18 Known as an art therapist by many, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis developed exercises that encouraged creativity and had a healing effect. She used yoga, meditation and rhythmic exercises to help the children relax. She encouraged them to paint selfportraits, and to sign their paintings with their own names or personal monograms at a time when they had all been issued and reduced to numbers. ( In 1944, Friedl was deported with all of her students to Auschwitz- Birkenau All were killed. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis ( ) The following illustrations were all done by children; some were students of Brandeis others were not

19 Ema Taubová Untitled 1943 (Born in 1930-died 1943) Theresienstadt

20 Charlotte Buresova Child Prisoner at a Window Monotype ink Theresienstadt Ghetto (survived until 1983)

21 Kurt Korálek Untitled 1941 Crayon on paper Theresienstadt Ghetto Killed in 1944

22 Artist: Unknown A Child s Impression of the Deportation of Jews Year: Unknown

23 Richard Nussbaum 14 years old Witness to camps and mass killings while in France Year--unknown

24 Drawing of A Child s Dream The special care children received in the Theresienstadt ghetto included drawing classes. In spite of the shortage of basic supplies, the teachers improvised in order to keep the children busy. excerpt from the Wiesenthal Online Multimedia Learning Center

25 Alfred Weisskopf 10 years old Untitled 1942 Completed in the Theresienstadt ghetto (Later Alfred was deported to Auschwitz, where he died in 1944)

26 František Petr Jellinek Untitled 1941 Theresienstadt (Petr was 10 years old when he did this drawing; died 3 years later in Auschwitz)

27 Josef Novak Untitled Year-unknown Age--unknown Theresienstadt

28 Sonja Waldsteinová Untitled Year-unknown Age--unknown Theresienstadt (Sonja was 17 years old when she died in 1943)

29 Helga Weissová (Hošková) Untitled (Dr. looking for lice on a woman) 1941 Helga was 12 years old when she drew this image From her series Draw What You See

30 Helga Weissová (Hošková) Untitled 1941 From her series Draw What You See

31 Anonymous Year-unknown Age--unknown Theresienstadt

32 Yehuda Bacon The Escape 1945 Theresienstadt (Later Yehuda was deported to Auschwitz, where he survived, and later went on to become a well known artist)

33 Yehuda Bacon In the Soup Line at Mauthausen 1945 Pencil on paper Art Collection Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, Israel

34 Yehuda Bacon Memories from Auschwitz (Figure and Wire Fences) Pencil on paper Completed while in Czechoslovakia, 1946 after he was liberated

35 Yehuda Bacon In Memory of the Czech Transport to the Gas Chambers 1945 charcoal on paper Yad Veshem, Jerusalem

36 Sources

37 Various available Internet Sites featuring the Art of the Holocaust Holocaustforgotten.com stpictures.htm Holocaust Education Through Art art/

38 Learning About the Holocaust Through Art Last Expression-Art from Auschwitz A Teacher s Guide To The Holocaust: The Art

39 Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center /p00/a0021p3.html

40 HOPE