A watercolor painting on paper of the Theresienstadt mortuary created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 54564

Date: 1943
Variant Locale: Terezin
Czech Republic
Photo Designation: ART OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Artists E
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ron Neulinger

Biography: Zdenka Eismannova was born in Prague in 1897. She was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942, where she was interned for nine months. A talented artist, her paintings depict daily life in the Ghetto such as interior scenes of the women's barracks, a child wearing a star of David patch, and an exterior scene of the "leichenkammer" or corpse chamber as indicated in a poem on the front of the watercolor. On September 6, 1943 she was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where she is presumed to have perished.
Keyword: ART
ART MOTIF (CAMPS/GHETTOS/PRISONS)
ART MOTIF (DAILY LIFE)
ART MOTIF (DEATH)
ART OF THE HOLOCAUST/WWII
EISMANNOVA, ZDENKA
THERESIENSTADT
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Ron Neulinger
: Record last modified: 2011-10-12 00:00:00
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