Pinchas Shaar photographs
- Date
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approximately 1910-1975
(inclusive)
- Genre/Form
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Photographs.
- Extent
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1 box
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith M. Shaar
The Pinchas Shaar photographs consist of black and white photographs of Pinchas Shaar and his family in the Łódź ghetto and after the war in Germany, France, and Israel; photographs of life in the Łódź ghetto by Mendel Grossman; and a printed image of a destroyed synagogue.
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Also in Pinchas Shaar collection
The collection consists of two drawings and photographs relating to the experiences of Pinchas Shaar and his family in the Lodz ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust and after the war in Germany, France, and Israel.
Date: 1910-1975
Stage design for the Lodz ghetto theater created by an innate
Object
Theater set design created by 18 year old Pinchas Szwarc (Shaar) during his imprisonment in the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland. He enjoyed the work, as "artistic activity and expression, as well as a means of maintaining the face of a "normal" humna benig." Shows were presented from 1940-1941. In February 1940, the Germans, who had occupied Poland in September 1939, established a ghetto for the Jews in Lodz, now named Litzmannstadt, and required the residents to perform forced labor. Pinchas, like other family members, first worked in a factory. When his artistic talents were discovered, he was employed producing signs and charts for the Statistical Office. In 1944, the Germans destroyed the ghetto and deported the inhabitants to concentration camps. Pinchas, with his father and brothers, was sent to Sachsenhausen, where they were slave laborers until the camp was liberated by the Soviet Army in 1945. The family returned to Lodz in May 1945. Pinchas could not bear to remain in the place where so much destruction had occurred and he left for Germany, and then settled in France.
Black crayon sketch of a men standing in line in the Lodz Ghetto created by a fellow inmate
Object
Crayon drawing created by 18 year old Pinchas Szwarc (Shaar) of men standing in a long line based upon daily life in the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland. In February 1940, the Germans, who had occupied Poland in September 1939, established a ghetto for the Jews in Lodz, now named Litzmannstadt, and required the residents to perform forced labor. Pinchas, like other family members, first worked in a factory. When his artistic talents were discovered, he was employed producing signs and charts for the Statistical Office. In 1944, the Germans destroyed the ghetto and deported the inhabitants to concentration camps. Pinchas, with his father and brothers, was sent to Sachsenhausen, where they were slave laborers until the camp was liberated by the Soviet Army in 1945. The family returned to Lodz in May 1945. Pinchas could not bear to remain in the place where so much destruction had occurred and he left for Germany, and then settled in France.
