Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Multi-colored gouache created by Maurice Rosen based upon his experiences as a prisoner in Pithiviers transit camp in France.The painting depicts men and women standing on the flatbed of a truck located in front of a barbed-wire fence with soldiers standing nearby.
- Artwork Title
- Pendant mon enfance
- Alternate Title
- During my childhood
- Date
-
creation:
1949-1950
depiction: approximately 1942
- Geography
-
depiction:
Pithiviers (Concentration camp);
Pithiviers (France)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
- Markings
- front, lower right center, painted : Maurice Rosen
- Contributor
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Artist:
Maurice Rosen
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Paintings
- Object Type
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Gouache painting (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular paper with a paper mat depicting a multi-colored painted image along the bottom of men and women standing on the flatbed of truck located in front of barbed-wire fence with soldiers standing nearby. The title in French is painted across the top and the artist's signature and French text is handwritten across the center.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 12.875 inches (32.703 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, gouache, ink, adhesive
- Inscription
- front, top, paint : PENDANT mon ENFANCE
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camps in art--France--Pithiviers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Pithiviers. Holocaust survivors--France--Biography. Jewish artists--France--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France--Pictorial works. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish.
- Corporate Name
- Pithiviers (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The gouache was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003.
- 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:
- 2023-06-01 14:34:48
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521507
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