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A watercolor painting on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt depicting women resting on the bunk beds of a crowded barrack.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 54565
A watercolor painting on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt depicting women resting on the bunk beds of a crowded barrack.

A watercolor painting on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt depicting women resting on the bunk beds of a crowded barrack.

Date
1942 - 1943
Locale
Theresienstadt, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale
Terezin
Czech Republic
Photo Designation
ART OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Artists E
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ron Neulinger

About This Photograph

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.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Ron Neulinger
 
Record last modified: 2011-05-12 00:00:00
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