Shamefullythe bluefills roomswith death color,it swirlsamethyst-crystalsto paintdeath ontocanvasforgetting the blueof the seato pour deaththrough skyto take awaybreath,deceiving with themost beautifulof blues,raining deathblue.- Alice Rogoff, San Francisco, 1991Zyklon B (Prussic acid in the form of amethyst-colored crystals) was used as a killin...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Zegota is the code name of the Council for Aid to Jews (Rada Pomocy Zydom), an underground organization that operated in occupied Poland from 1942-1945. Its express purpose was to aid Poland's Jews, finding them places of safety. Zegota was the only rescue organization that was run jointly by Jews and non-Jews from a wide range of political move...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
"The Fifth Horseman Series" continues the work begun in Fritz Hisrchberger’s “Sur-Rational Holocaust Paintings” series, and should not be be seen as independent of one another. The exhibition draws its title from Hirschberger’s painting of the same name, which references the Book of Revelations (6:1-8): “And now I saw a pale horse, and its rider...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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.
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.