Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of contemporary paintings by Arie Singer relating to his experiences as a child in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), the ghetto in Glembokie (Hlybokaye), Belarus, and with a partisan group in the forests near Vilnius during the Holocaust.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Arie Singer.
Browse 91 Items In This Collection
Autobiographical painting of partisans and Soviet soldiers view the hanging of 3 German soldiers
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.1
depiction: 1944 July 11
Autobiographical painting of partisans led by young boy meeting soldiers near Kiev
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.2
depiction: 1944 July 11
Autobiographical painting of partisans holding German prisoners at gunpoint after battle
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.3
depiction: 1944
Autobiographical painting of a large group of armed partisans marching in a forest near Vilna
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.4
depiction: 1944
Autobiographical painting of partisans blowing up a Nazi train in a forest near Vilna
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.5
depiction: 1944
Autobiographical painting of partisans approaching train tracks near Lokda
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.6
depiction: 1943 September 22
Autobiographical painting of partisans shooting and killing a group of Nazi soldiers
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.7
depiction: 1943-1944
Autobiographical painting of partisans shooting 2 German soldiers
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.8
depiction: 1943-1944
Autobiographical painting of partisans running past 2 dead German soldiers
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.9
depiction: 1943-1944
Painting of a young boy protecting people with Judenstern from German soldiers
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.10
depiction: 1943 August 20
Watercolor of partisans setting off an explosion to stop a swastika marked train
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.11
depiction: 1943-1944
Autobiographical painting of a group of partisans preparing to leave for night patrol
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.12
depiction: 1943-1944
Autobiographical painting of partisans at rest in an underground cabin in a forest
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.13
depiction: 1943-1944
Painting of partisans sharing a meal inside their shelter in the forest
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.14
Autobiographical painting of German soldiers attacking in the snow
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.15
depiction: 1943-1944
Autobiographical watercolor of German soldiers moving toward train tracks at night
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.16
depiction: 1943 May-1944
Autobiographical painting of a partisan on horseback leading soldiers on a march through the forest
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.17
depiction: 1943-1944
Painting of a group of partisans preparing to attack a derailed train marked with swastikas
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.18
depiction: 1943-1944
Autobiographical watercolor of a partisan patrol removing train rails
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.19
depiction: 1944 July 01-1944 July 03
Autobiographical watercolor featuring two youthful partisans meeting with a uniformed soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.20
depiction: 1943-1944
Autobiographical painting of armed partisans resting in a tilled field
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.21
depiction: 1943-1944
Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.22
depiction: 1942-1945
Colored pencil drawing of the final red train cars passing through a concentration camp gate
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.23
depiction: 1942-1945
Autobiographical painting of a Jewish family protecting three flower beds from snow in the ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.24
depiction: 1942 March 01
Autobiographical watercolor of an encounter between a Jewish couple and German guards
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.25
depiction: 1942
Autobiographical watercolor of Jews being unloaded from a truck by German and Lithuanian soldiers
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.26
depiction: 1941 December 20
Autobiographical drawing of a Jewish family at a ghetto gate ID checkpoint
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.27
depiction: 1941 January-1941 July
Autobiographical drawing of Jewish workers lined up to leave the ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.28
depiction: 1941 January-1943 May
Autobiographical watercolor of a group of Jews and soldiers at a ghetto checkpoint
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.29
depiction: 1942 December 01
Autobiographical watercolor of people with Star of David badges walking on a city street
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.30
depiction: 1941-1943
Autobiographical painting of a boy watching Nazi soldiers detaining a group of Jewish men at gunpoint
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.31
depiction: 1941 July 17
Painting of the cross-section of a 3 story building filled with boys and men with Star of David badges
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.32
depiction: 1941-1943
Autobiographical painting of a large group of Jews being escorted by guards past a church
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.33
depiction: 1941 September 06
Autobiographical painting of a group of Jewish children, men, and women escorted by guards
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.34
depiction: 1941 September 06
Watercolor painting showing a group of Jewish men, women, and children entering a ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.35
depiction: 1941 September 06
Autobiographical watercolor painting of a group of Jewish men, women, and children under guard
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.36
depiction: 1941 September 08
Autobiographical painting of a round-up of Jews in a ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.37
depiction: 1941 September 25
Watercolor depicting Nazi soldiers shooting Jewish men and boys into a blood streaked dirt ditch
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.38
depiction: 1941 September
Autobiographical watercolor of people with Star of David badges being marched through a town
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.39
depiction: 1941 September 02
Autobiographical painting of a crowd of people with Judenstern being lectured by German guards
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.40
depiction: 1941-1943
Autobiographical painting of a several Jewish children sleeping in an empty room
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.41
depiction: 1941-1943
Interior view of daily life in an apartment building in Glembokie ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.42
depiction: 1941-1943
Watercolor of the burning of massacred Jews in the Ponary Forest by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.43
depiction: 1944 March 05
Autobiographical watercolor of a group of Jews standing in the snow near a broken truck
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.44
depiction: 1941 December 24
Watercolor painting of 4 men being tortured by German guards
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.45
Watercolor painting of a man being whipped by German guards as other prisoners wait in line
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.46
Watercolor of concentration camp prisoners being marched through the woods
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.47
Watercolor of concentration camp prisoners building a brick wall near barbed wire
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.48
Watercolor of female concentration camp inmates marching through the ARBEIT MACHT FREI gate
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.49
Watercolor of concentration camp prisoners cremating bodies in a fire pit
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.50
Watercolor of an imagined scene of a US soldier with a group of concentration camp prisoners
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.51
Watercolor of Jewish children, men, and women squeezed into a room with large vents
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.52
Autobiographical painting of a young boy with partisans hiding from soldiers at night
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.53
Autobiographical watercolor of 2 Nazi soldiers passing a partisan compound in the forest
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.54
depiction: Nievier village; Belarus
depiction: 1943 May 02
Autobiographical watercolor of Jewish partisans around a fire in a snow covered forest at night
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.55
Autobiographical watercolor of Jewish partisans around a fire in a snow covered forest
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.56
Watercolor depicting partisans shooting at Nazi soldiers driving through the forest
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.57
depiction: Naroch Forest; Belarus
depiction: 1942 June 22-1942 August 01
Watercolor depicting armed German soldiers looking through a gate at the bodies of dead Jews
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.58
depiction: 1943 August 20
Autobiographical painting of a youth getting a chest wound treated by a doctor
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.59
Autobiographical watercolor depicting armed Nazi soldiers searching a forest as partisans escape
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.60
depiction: partisan camp (Lokda); Belarus
depiction: 1943 September 20
Autobiographical watercolor of a young boy and partisans escaping their burning camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.61
Autobiographical watercolor of a young boy marching out on patrol with his partian group
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.62
Autobiographical watercolor of a partisan standoff against German soldiers
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.63
depiction: Belarus
depiction: 1943 March 09
Autobiographical watercolor of two German soldiers unknowingly passing a partisan camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.64
depiction: 1943 June 12
Autobiographical painting depicting partisans changing shifts for patrol
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.65
Autobiographical watercolor drawing of a partisan patrol passing through a tilled field
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.66
depiction: 1943 September 05
Autobiographical watercolor of Aryeh and some partisans watching a Soviet plane
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.67
depiction: Belarus
depiction: 1943 August 28-1943 September 01
Autobiographical watercolor of partisans around a campfire
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.68
depiction: 1943 July 10
Watercolor of a man standing before a partisan firing squad by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.69
depiction: Belarus
depiction: 1943 May 11
Watercolor of a man using a short wave radio at night by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.70
depiction: 1943 September 10
Imagined scenes of his father's murder at Ponary by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.71
depiction: 1942 April 20
Scenes of German brutality in the ghetto as imagined by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.72
Autobiographical painting of German soldiers shooting a youth by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.73
depiction: 1943 February 10
Autobiographical sketch of a boy in bed when soldiers raid the home by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.74
depiction: 1943 February 15
Autobiographical monochrome sketch of soldiers arresting a Jewish family by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.75
depiction: 1941 January 19
Autobiographical watercolor of soldiers escorting a long, long line of Jews by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.76
depiction: 1941 June
Autobiographical watercolor of a Jewish family in their forest hideout done by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.77
depiction: 1942 November 10-1942 November 20
Watercolor of ews being expelled from a village done by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.78
depiction: 1942-1943
Autobiographcal watercolor of a German officer and young woman conversing
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.79
depiction: 1941-1942
Autobiographocal watercolor of Jewish partisans climbing the fence out of the ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.80
depiction: 1942 October 10
Autobiographical watercolor of a Jewish family having a formal dinner
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.81
depiction: 1942-1943
Watercolor of people with Judenstern in an underground shelter done by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.82
depiction: 1944
Autobiographical watercolor of two youths working under guard by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.83
Bisected artwork of 2 boys at a window, with 2 scenes of mass killings painted by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.84
depiction: 1942 June 22
Autobiographical watercolor of Jews hiding in a house done by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.85
Autobiographical watercolor of a youth escaping over a fence done by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.86
Watercolor of soldiers guarding a crowd of Jews behind a fence done by a former child partisan
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.87
Split scene autobiographical watercolor of 2 young partisans hiding with scenes of a roundup and execution
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.88
depiction: 1942 June 21
Autobiographical watercolor of Aryeh and other Jews in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.89
Autbiographical watercolor of wounded soldiers being taken through a village
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.90
depiction: approximately 1941 June
Scenes from the life of a Jewish woman painted by Arie Singer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.91
depiction: Hlybokaye (Belarus)
depiction: 1942 March 03
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