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Drawing by Alexander Bogen of a woman in a head scarf and a child in a cap standing side by side

Object | Accession Number: 2005.181.95

Sketch created by Alexander Bogen, depicting two Jews interned in the ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He helped lead the all-Jewish Nekama (Revenge) partisan brigade, and reentered the Vilna ghetto to help underground fighters escape as it was being liquidated by the Germans. When Lithuania was liberated in 1944 by Soviet forces, he returned to Vilna and resumed his studies.

Artwork Title
Mother and child
Date
creation:  1943
Geography
depiction: Vilna ghetto (Poland) (historic); Vilnius (Lithuania)
Language
Russian
Classification
Art
Category
Drawings
Object Type
Ink drawings (tgm)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
 
Record last modified: 2023-02-27 13:53:49
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