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- Maxine Rude - Displaced Europe 1945-1946 (68)
- Fritz Hirschberger - The Sur-Rational Holocaust Paintings (21)
- Fritz Hirschberger - The Fifth Horseman (20)
- Oscar Arredondo - Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the… (17)
- Lucien Philippe Moretti - “Un sac de Billes” Lithographs (13)
- Portraying Memories - Portraits & Conversations Survivors of the Shoah (9)
- Jordan Krimstein - Water Colors of Auschwitz (8)
- Betty Mittleman - Silence is Golden and the Warsaw Ghetto Series (1)
Format
Created
Subject
Creator
Language
- Description:
- Dora Eiger Zaidenweber was born in Poland in January of 1924. Dora and her father, mother, and brother lived a middle class life in the city of Radom in central Poland. The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 took her community by surprise, and disrupted her young life. Immediately, life changed, and Dora and her peers could not attend school. Dora ...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Edith Fuhrmann Brandmann was born September 11, 1931 in Krischatik, Romania. Edith’s father was a prosperous sugar-beet farmer and cattle rancher, her mother owned a grocery store. In 1939, she was 10 years old when the war broke out. In 1941 Jews began being rounded up but Edith and her family luckily managed to escape the deportation as the Ro...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Fred Amram was born September 19, 1933 in Hanover Germany, where he experienced the early years of the Holocaust. An only child, he and his parents found their way to Antwerp, Belgium in November 1939 before escaping later that month to New York City. For many years the family had no idea the fate their extended families members had suffered unt...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Gustav “Gus” Gutman left Germany with his parents and grandmother in 1939, when he was four years old. His father (the owner of a successful dry cleaning and dyeing company) had been imprisoned during Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews which took place on November 9-10, 1938 in Nazi Germany and Austria. During that time, Gus, his mother and gr...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Herbert Fantle was born an only child in Vienna, Austria on March 18, 1929. In March 1938, Fantle’s mother took then 9-year-old Herbert to see Hitler give his welcome speech to the Austrians. He recalls his mother telling him not to get too close. His mother sensed danger and felt that leaving Austria the best course of action, but at the time t...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Lucy Smith (born Lucy Kreisler) was born on June 15, 1933 in Kraców, Poland. She was six years old when the German army occupied Poland. Lucy had to leave school after one month of attendance because education was no longer allowed for Jewish children. After many other indignities she was put in the ghetto where she and her mother hid from the N...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Max Goodman (born Gutmann) was born in Radauti, Romania on November 23, 1923. Although his family had lived in Radauti since 1718, they were considered outsiders because they were Jews. When the Soviet Union occupied the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and North Bukovina in June of 1940, a rumor spread that Jews in these provinces had attacked ...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Victor Vital was born February 6, 1932 in Patra, Greece. When the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, word spread through Patra that Victor’s entire maternal family of 90 had been murdered in Salonica. Friends urged Victor’s father to take his extended family of eight and flee before the Nazis entered the city. With the help of his father’s friend who...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Walter Schwarz was born in 1921 in Timisoara, Romania. Formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian empire Timosoari was ethnically divided between Hungarian, Romanian and German speaking people. Walter and his family primarily spoke German, which would prove to be helpful later in Walter’s life. Walter was in Brno studying textiles at a Czech school w...
- Creator:
- de la Concha, Felix
- Created:
- 2013
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- The title of the painting comes from a line in T.S. Eliot's 1920 poem "Gerontion," excerpted below by artist: "After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think nowHistory has many cunning passages, contrived corridorsAnd issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,Guides us by vanities. Think nowShe gives when our attention is distractedAnd what she...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Created:
- 1990?
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- On April 19, 1943, the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto began. The remaining Jewish population, depleted by transports to the death camp at Treblinka, was exterminated. Units of SS stormed the Ghetto under the command of General Stroop. Unexpectedly, Jewish resistance was strong, and it took more than a month for the Germans to subdue the Warsaw...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Slogan over the main entrance to Auschwitz I. Many artists during and after the Holocaust used the image of a crucified Christ to represent the Jewish people, most famously Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion (1938). In this image, "Work Makes You Free" replaces the typical Latin INRI, Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the J...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Created:
- 1990?
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Ilse Koch, "The Bitch of Buchenwald" (as she was called due to her cruelty and sadistic treatment of prisoners), was a member of the Nazi party and the wife of concentration camp commandant Karl Otto Koch. Together they shared a passion for collecting patches of tattooed human skin and shrunken human heads. Ilse was the one who selected the livi...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Hirschberger depicts a prisoner being tortured in a manner that Nazis favored. The desperation of the situation is highlighted by a need for a refuge- in the midst of the mass murder-the indifference to the suffering by the United States, which repeatedly refused refugees based on outdated immigration laws and a prevailing feeling of antisemitis...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Created:
- 1990?
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Naked and shorn, husband and wife dance in a final embrace in Zyklon B's blue crystal deadly rain.Rain, rain - blue rainGo awayRain, rain - blue rainNever comeAgain.Zyklon B, a commercial form of hydrocyanic acid, which became active on contact with air, was manufactured by a firm called Degesch, which was largely owned by I.G. Farben. The chemi...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- At Auschwitz/Birkenau extermination camp some of the world's finest musicians were forced to perform for the amusement of the Nazi SS guards, while their Jewish victims were tortured and gassed. Henry Meyer, Gisela Hirschberger’s (Hirschberger’s wife) cousin played the violin in one of the death camp orchestras at Auschwitz/Birkenau. He survived...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Created:
- 1990?
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- The visual text of this painting relates to testimony given at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials between 1963-1965, in "Auschwitz: A report on the proceedings against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka and others before the court at Frankfurt" by Bernd Naumann, published in 1966. At the trial four Polish witnesses (three of whom were doctors), two SS men tes...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Arrested by the Nazis in September 1939 in Hamburg, Germany; Mr. Landau was shipped to the notorious concentration camp Dachau, located in Bavaria about 15 km northwest of Munich. While in Dachau, Mr. Landau was murdered and cremated by the SS camp guards. His ashes,placed in a cigar box,were then delivered by an official of the Gestapo (Secret ...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Created:
- 1990?
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- The identification card was valid for only 30 days. If another 30 day renewal was denied, the bearer was subjected to deportation or evacuation, the Nazi euphemism for extermination. The 30 day renewal threat, hung over the bearer of the ID, like the sword suspended by a hair over the head of Damocles in Greek Mythology. Upon the liquidation of ...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
- Description:
- Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you.Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you.Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers andbetrayers to walk safely on earth.- Edward Yashinski, Yiddish poet who survived the Shoah only to die in a Communist prison in Poland.[Note: The painting is based on a photograph taken by SS-H...
- Creator:
- Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
- Created:
- 1994?
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-12-15
