Drawing The Holocaust

Author : Michael Kraus
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822981497

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Drawing the Holocaust by Michael Kraus Pdf

Twelve-year-old Michael Kraus began keeping a diary while he was still living at home in the Czech city of Nachód but continued writing while a prisoner at Theresienstadt (Terezín). When he was shipped with other prisoners to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, all of his writings were confiscated and destroyed. After his liberation and while convalescing, he began to draw and make notes again about his experiences in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, the first death march out of Mauthausen, and its satellite camps, in Melk and Gunskirchen. As a teenager confronting the traumas of these experiences, Kraus found that recording his memories in words and pictures helped him overcome his hatred for those who had murdered his parents. The process of writing and drawing also helped him begin the painful transition to a so-called normal life. As a survivor, Kraus also felt the need to recount his experiences for the benefit of future generations, especially on behalf of the many who did not survive. The present edition makes this memoir, originally written in Czech and significant for having been written so close to the author’s liberation, widely available to English readers for the first time. It also reproduces pages from the original booklets that show how the teenage Kraus illustrated his memories with pencil drawings that both complement and extend his story, giving readers a sense of its character as an unusual and important historical document.

Author : Tamar Hendel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112674259

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Life with Death by Tamar Hendel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1510706666

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Imprisoned by Anonim Pdf

In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan—his own Viae Crucis—was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to learn their stories, but to learn from their stories. He met with dozens of survivors from Auschwitz, Terezín, Mauthausen-Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Gonars, Monigo, Renicci, Banjica, Ravensbrück, Jasenovac, Belsen, and Gurs. Many of these men and women shared their memories with Benvenuti along with artwork they’d created during their internment with pencil, ink, and charcoal. After four decades of research, Benvenuti presented these original black-and-white pieces in Imprisoned. This stunning collection provides visuals that oftentimes even the most eloquent words and sentences cannot convey. In his foreword, chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi highlighted the importance of these reproductions, stating, “some have the immediate power of art; all have the raw power of the eye that has seen and that transmits its indignation.”

Author : Alfred Kantor
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Concentration camps in art
ISBN : 0861885929

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The Book of Alfred Kantor by Alfred Kantor Pdf

Forfatterens dagbog og tegninger fra hans ophold i koncentrationslejrene Terezin, Auschwitz og Schwarzheide under 2. verdenskrig

Author : Janet Blatter,Sybil Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015046833797

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Art of the Holocaust by Janet Blatter,Sybil Milton Pdf

A Layla Productions book.

Author : Jennifer Dasal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780525506409

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ArtCurious by Jennifer Dasal Pdf

A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781510706682

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Imprisoned by Anonim Pdf

In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan—his own Viae Crucis—was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to learn their stories, but to learn from their stories. He met with dozens of survivors from Auschwitz, Terezín, Mauthausen-Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Gonars, Monigo, Renicci, Banjica, Ravensbrück, Jasenovac, Belsen, and Gurs. Many of these men and women shared their memories with Benvenuti along with artwork they’d created during their internment with pencil, ink, and charcoal. After four decades of research, Benvenuti presented these original black-and-white pieces in Imprisoned. This stunning collection provides visuals that oftentimes even the most eloquent words and sentences cannot convey. In his foreword, chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi highlighted the importance of these reproductions, stating, “some have the immediate power of art; all have the raw power of the eye that has seen and that transmits its indignation.”

Author : Hana Volavková
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Child artists
ISBN : OCLC:494108780

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... I Never Saw Another Butterfly... by Hana Volavková Pdf

A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terezín Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

Author : Hana Volavková
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032819669

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I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavková Pdf

Published to coincide with the opening in April 1993 of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this collection of drawings and poetry documents the terrible daily misery endured by these children. Of the 15,000 children under the age of 15 who passed through this camp, fewer than 100 survived. 60 color illustrations.

Author : Maya Balakirsky Katz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813577036

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Drawing the Iron Curtain by Maya Balakirsky Katz Pdf

In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Art historian Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm brought together Jewish creative personnel from every corner of the Soviet Union and served as an unlikely haven for dissidents who were banned from working in other industries. Surveying a wide range of Soviet animation produced between 1919 and 1989, from cutting-edge art films like Tale of Tales to cartoons featuring “Soviet Mickey Mouse” Cheburashka, she finds that these works played a key role in articulating a cosmopolitan sensibility and a multicultural vision for the Soviet Union. Furthermore, she considers how Jewish filmmakers used animation to depict distinctive elements of their heritage and ethnic identity, whether producing films about the Holocaust or using fellow Jews as models for character drawings. Providing a copiously illustrated introduction to many of Soyuzmultfilm’s key artistic achievements, while revealing the tumultuous social and political conditions in which these films were produced, Drawing the Iron Curtain has something to offer animation fans and students of Cold War history alike.

Author : Nelly S. Toll
Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X006098323

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Without Surrender by Nelly S. Toll Pdf

"Uncovered in various ghettos, concentration camps, and other hiding places, this very special art speaks of the drama, dignity, and courage of the victims." --cover page [4].

Author : Thomas Geve
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780063062016

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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz by Thomas Geve Pdf

An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald and recorded his experiences through words and color drawings. In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in the men’s camp of Auschwitz I. During 22 harsh months in three camps, Thomas experienced and witnessed the cruel and inhumane world of Nazi concentration and death camps. Nonetheless, he never gave up the will to live. Miraculously, he survived and was liberated from Buchenwald at the age of fifteen. While still in the camp and too weak to leave, Thomas felt a compelling need to document it all, and drew over eighty drawings, all portrayed in simple yet poignant detail with extraordinary accuracy. He not only shared the infamous scenes, but also the day-to-day events of life in the camps, alongside inmates' manifestations of humanity, support and friendship. To honor his lost friends and the millions of silenced victims of the Holocaust, in the years following the war, Thomas put his story into words. Despite the evil of the camps, his account provides a striking affirmation of life. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz, accompanied with 56 of his color illustrations, is the unique testimony of young Thomas and his quest for a brighter tomorrow.

Author : David Mickenberg,Corinne Granof,Peter Hayes,Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Publisher : Block Museum
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056808648

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The Last Expression by David Mickenberg,Corinne Granof,Peter Hayes,Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Pdf

An extensive exploration of the culture and visual art created by concentration camp victims during World War II.

Author : Státní židovské muzeum (Czech Republic)
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032798295

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I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Státní židovské muzeum (Czech Republic) Pdf

The drawings and poems by the children of Terezin are among the most poignant documents of the Holocaust. This expanded edition of the unforgettable collection I Never Saw Another Butterfly was occasioned by the loan of the children's art by the State Jewish Museum in Prague to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for exhibition and for this book. The ghetto of Terezin (Theresienstadt), located in the hills outside Prague, was an unusual concentration camp in that it was created to cover up the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Billed as the "Fuhrer's gift to the Jews," this "model ghetto" was the site of a Red Cross inspection visit in 1944 and of a propaganda film produced by the Nazis. Some elderly Jews even paid to enter its protective ghetto walls. With its high proportion of artists and intellectuals, culture flourished in the ghetto -- alongside starvation, disease, and constant dread of the continuous transports to the death camps of the east. Every one of its inhabitants was condemned in advance to die. A total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp between the years 1942 and 1944; less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates of Terezin, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their courage and optimism, their hopes and fears. The drawings and poems are all that is left of these children. About those who signed their names to their work, it has been possible to find out a few facts: the year and place of their birth, the date of their transport to Terezin and to Auschwitz, and the date of their death. For most of them that last date was 1944, a year before the end of the war. These innocent and honest depictions allow us to see through the eyes of the children what life was like in the ghetto. Birds and butterflies flutter with the looming red roofs of Terezin in the background; a luminous moonlit room betrays the stark interior of the barracks. Pencil line drawings depict the threatening guards, work brigades, and deportations they witnessed. Side by side with the realities are images of hope -- a sailboat guided by a candle, a lighted menorah, children playing in a garden that resembles Eden, figures scaling mountain peaks to liberation. The children's poems and drawings, revealing a maturity beyond their years, are haunting reminders of what no child should ever have to see. Each piece of art gives the overwhelming tragedy of genocide a human and individual face. This new, expanded edition of I Never Saw Another Butterfly includes many additional drawings and poems chosen from the archives of the State Jewish Museum in Prague by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Author : Sybil Milton
Publisher : Jensen
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081955044

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The Art of Jewish Children, Germany, 1936-1941 by Sybil Milton Pdf

125 drawings exhibited by the Dusseldorf Museum in 1988. The collection and accompanying narrative essays tell the story of Julo Levin, artist and teacher, and the survival of the drawings. Finely reproduced color and bandw photos of Levin's work, that of his circle of friends, and, of course, that of the children. A translation from the German (1988, Dusseldorf: Claassen). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR