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1. Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp
2006.125.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.22
Date:
creation: 2000 October 10
depiction: 1942-1945
Series Title:
Imagining Auschwitz
Artwork Title:
Auschwitz Orchestra and Crematorium
…Auschwitz Orchestra and Crematorium…
2. Colored pencil drawing of the final red train cars passing through a concentration camp gate
2006.125.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.23
Date:
creation: 1985-2000
depiction: 1942-1945
Series Title:
Imagining Auschwitz
Artwork Title:
Taken by Train to Auschwitz
…Taken by Train to Auschwitz…
3. Colored pencil drawing made postwar by a former hidden child in memory of his sisters' death and cremation at Auschwitz
Object | Accession Number: 2006.228.1
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1942-1943
creation: approximately 2000
Artwork Title:
En Leur Memoire
Alternate Title:
In Their Memory
…Colored pencil drawing made postwar by a former hidden child in memory of his sisters' death and cremation at Auschwitz…
4. Watercolor
Object | Accession Number: 2011.411.3
Date:
creation: 1943
… 1942. Nine months later, on September 6, 1943, she was transferred to Auschwitz, where she is presumed to have perished.…
5. Watercolor
Object | Accession Number: 2011.411.4
Date:
creation: 1943
… 1942. Nine months later, on September 6, 1943, she was transferred to Auschwitz, where she is presumed to have perished.…
6. Watercolor
Object | Accession Number: 2011.411.2
Date:
creation: 1943
… 1942. Nine months later, on September 6, 1943, she was transferred to Auschwitz, where she is presumed to have perished.…
7. Watercolor
Object | Accession Number: 2011.411.5
Date:
creation: 1943
… 1942. Nine months later, on September 6, 1943, she was transferred to Auschwitz, where she is presumed to have perished.…
8. Autobiographical watercolor of the exterior of a concentration camp corpse chamber
Object | Accession Number: 2011.411.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1943
depiction: 1942 September-1943 June
… 1942. Nine months later, on September 6, 1943, she was transferred to Auschwitz, where she is presumed to have perished.…
9. Portrait of an engineer done by Peter Kien when both were inmates in Terezin
Object | Accession Number: 1992.124.1
Date:
received: after 1942 January-before 1944 October
Artwork Title:
Karel Fischer, Theresienstadt, 1942-1944
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
10. Karel Fleischmann drawing of prisoners watching coffins being stacked in a wagon
Object | Accession Number: 1992.124.2 a-b
Date:
creation: 1943
Artwork Title:
Loading of Coffins in Terezin, 1943
Alternate Title:
Transport to the Leichenstelle
… wife Roza, and sister Marta and her family were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Karel, 46, was killed in the gas…
11. Autobiographical drawing by Halina Olomucki of a woman receiving a parcel in the Warsaw ghetto
CM_2001.122.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.122.7
Date:
creation: 1943
depiction: 1943
Artwork Title:
In the ghetto: The Parcel
… Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was tattooed with the number 48652. She was assigned to Block 10 whose residents were used for experimental medical atrocities…
12. Halina Olomucki drawing
CM_2001.122.4_001 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.122.4
Date:
1943
Artwork Title:
Two women hiding
… Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was tattooed with the number 48652. She was assigned to Block 10 whose residents were used for experimental medical atrocities…
13. Halina Olomucki drawing
CM_2001.122.5_001 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.122.5
Date:
1943
Artwork Title:
Family in the ghetto
… Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was tattooed with the number 48652. She was assigned to Block 10 whose residents were used for experimental medical atrocities…
14. Halina Olomucki drawing
Object | Accession Number: 2001.122.6
Date:
1943
Artwork Title:
In the ghetto (Rabbi)
… Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was tattooed with the number 48652. She was assigned to Block 10 whose residents were used for experimental medical atrocities…
15. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand memorializing the destruction of Jewish culture during the Holocaust
2009.400.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.11
Date:
creation: 2003
depiction: 1939-1945
Artwork Title:
Temple Ruins
… taken from the Jewish ghetto to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, arriving on June 7. Her father was immediately sent to the gas chamber. Daisy, her…
16. Ink and pencil drawing of a church in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp by an inmate
2007.177.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.177.3
Date:
creation: 1943 October 22
Artwork Title:
View of a Church Tower in Theresienstadt
… Auschwitz-Birkenau on Transpor Es, October 19, 1944, and put to death. He was 40 years old.…
17. Leo Haas aquatint etching of a soldier watching marching people
2003.202.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.202.14
Date:
depiction: 1943
issue: 1966
Artwork Title:
Guard on Street Duty, Theresienstadt 1943
… Auschwitz, arriving there on October 28, 1944. Haas was assigned prisoner number 199885. Fritta died a week later of blood poisoning. For the next three weeks…
18. Drawing by Hannah Messinger of a woman sitting with her hands on her head
2010.489.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.489.7
Date:
depiction: 1941-1945
creation: approximately 1970
Series Title:
The Last Journey
Artwork Title:
Despair
… Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two weeks later, Hannah was sent there. During the march to the barracks, she threw her wedding ring and watch in the mud. A female…
19. Drawing by Hannah Messinger of a woman with two emaciated children
2010.489.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.489.5
Date:
depiction: 1941-1945
creation: approximately 1970
Series Title:
Last Journey
Artwork Title:
Young Girl Reaching
… Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two weeks later, Hannah was sent there. During the march to the barracks, she threw her wedding ring and watch in the mud. A female…
20. Drawing by Hannah Messinger of a cloaked woman and child slumped on a wall
2010.489.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.489.4
Date:
depiction: 1941-1945
creation: approximately 1970
Series Title:
Last Journey
Artwork Title:
Waiting
… Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two weeks later, Hannah was sent there. During the march to the barracks, she threw her wedding ring and watch in the mud. A female…