Watercolor of a 17th century synagogue created by an inmate at Theresienstadt

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Watercolor of a 17th century synagogue created by an inmate at Theresienstadt

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Artwork Title: Holzsynagoge in Zabludow 17. Jahfrh, Theresienstadt, 1944
Alternate Title: 17th century Wooden Synagogue in Zabludow, Theresienstadt, 1944
Date: creation: 1944-1944
Geography: creation: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
depiction: Holzsynagogue (Wooden Synagogue); Zabludow (Poland)
Language: German
Classification: Art
Category: Paintings
Object Type: Watercolor painting (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Physical Description: Watercolor depicting the exterior of a wooden synagogue.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, cardboard, watercolor, ink, adhesive, graphite
Markings: Holzsynagoge in Zabludowo 17.Jahrh. / Angef. in Theresienstadt
Signature: front, lower right, pencil : Bergel 1944
Contributor: Artist: Alfred Bergel
Biography: Alfred Bergel was born in Olmütz, Czechoslovakia (Olomouc, Czech Republic), on January 4, 1902. He earned a medical degree in the 1920s. He was a talented artist and taught at the primary school in the Jewish community of Vienna, Austria. In March 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted and the civil rights of Jews were dissolved. On October 9, 1942, Alfred and his wife were deported by the Germans to Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. Alfred was housed in the male artist house, where he worked for the Germans. When he was not doing official work, he created portraits of fellow prisoners and of daily life in the camp. On October 12, 1944, he and his wife were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where they were murdered.
Topical Term: Concentration camp inmates as artists--Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)--Pictorial works.
Personal Name: Bergel, Alfred, 1902-1944.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The watercolor was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-06-30 09:26:26
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The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and newspapers related to the experience of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents before and during the Holocaust in Austria, and Wilhelm's emigration to the United Kingdom in 1939, and deportation to Australia in 1940, and his subsequent release from interment camps and emgration to the United States. The colletion also includes artwork.

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The Wilhelm Baumann papers consist largely of correspondence, immigration documents, educational records, identification documents, newspapers, and ephemera; related to the emigration of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents from their native Austria in 1939, his life in the United Kingdom and subsequent classification as an enemy alien, his subsequent deportation to Australia in 1940 on the Dunera, and his experiences in two internment camps in New South Wales and Victoria (Camp Hay and Camp Tatura). The collection also contains an extensive selection of his correspondence with other German and Austrian Jewish émigrés in Australia and elsewhere, his subsequent release from the camps and activities in the Jewish communities of Victoria, and his immigration to the United States, including his reunion with his parents, in 1947.