Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Portfolio cover for published prints, 16 fametszete (woodcuts), containing 15 prints from a 16 print set, created by Miklos Adler, featuring scenes he witnessed while a concentration camp prisoner. This copy has prints 2-15.
Opening and closing pages: "know from where did you come..." (end page) ."..and also know where are you going." From the author's introduction: "This book has no title because one cannot find a word to express what with the Europian (sic) Jews happened in the last two years. ...Brothers, sisters innocently destroyed and killed ! I am mourning you until my death." - Title
- Adler Miklos 16 fametszete
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1947-1946
- Geography
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publication:
Debrecen (Hungary)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sheldon Kaplan
- Contributor
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Publisher:
Hechaluc Kiadas
Artist: Miklos Adler
Physical Details
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Books and pamphlets
- Object Type
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Portfolios (groups of works) (aat)
- Physical Description
- [10] p., 16 leaves of plates (plates are 8 in. x 8.375 in. ; 21 cm. x 22 cm. : chiefly ill.
This copy has 15 plates; plate 1, which is the same as the cover image, is missing.
Table of Contents: 1. They sew yellow stars on our clothes. 2. We are sent in the ghetto. 3. The brick- factory. We had to prostrate ourselves before an SS soldier of 16 years. 4. The brick-facory. One closet for 10,000 people. 5. The wagon (a catle car). 6. We arrived ; one is living, the other dead. 7. Selection. 8. We were cleaning ruins. 9. We were rooting out a forest. 10. We were draging beams. 11. We were diging a rampart in continual circle. 12. Reward of our labour. 13. Appel, 14. ...forwards! ...forwards! they drive us quickly away because the deliveration is approaching. 15. No title. 16. Home ! Home ?
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- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Personal Name
- Adler, Miklos.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The print portfolio was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Sheldon Kaplan on behalf of his wife Hannah Kaplan.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 11:03:15
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Also in Hannah Kaplan collection
The collection consists of three published portfolios of artwork, Tanuságtétel by Shraga Weil, 16 fameszete by Miklos Adler, and Danse Macabre by Ernest (Emo) Barta, published soon after the Holocaust.
Date: 1945-1946
Portfolio
Object
Enclosure for Tanusagtetel (Testimony), a commemorative portfolio containing 10 individual prints created by Sraga (Shraga ) Weil, a Hungarian artist and resistance member in Budapest during the war, depicting scenes of concentration camp inmates, camp life, and atrocities. The original drawings were dated 1945 and the portfolio was published in 1946.
Portfolio
Object
Limited edition portfolio, 117/300, of 16 prints by Ernest (Emo) Barta with allegorical images of Holocaust related subjects. Each print is numbered 117/300 and signed by the artist.
