Watercolor
- Date
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creation:
1943
- Geography
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depiction:
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp);
Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
- Language
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German
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Paintings
- Object Type
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Watercolor painting (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ron Neulinger
Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; image shows interior scene of women's barracks; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.
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Record last modified: 2023-09-05 15:19:29
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Also in Zdenka Eismannova collection
The collection consists of five watercolor paintings of camp life created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.
Autobiographical watercolor of the exterior of a concentration camp corpse chamber
Object
Watercolor created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The painting depicts the exterior of the leichenkammer or corpse chamber which is indicated in a poem on the front of the watercolor. Zdenka was deported from Prague to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943, to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.
Watercolor
Object
Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; image shows a young boy wearing a yellow star; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.
Watercolor
Object
Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; image shows interior scene of the women's barracks; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.
Watercolor
Object
Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.
Album
Object
Album; originally housed 5 watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; carved wooden album depicts a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist of the watercolors, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.
