Holocaust-Related Art, 1942-1989 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

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Collection Overview

Title: Holocaust-Related Art, 1942-1989

Predominant Dates:1933 --1945

ID: RG-14/RG-14

Primary Creator: Pieck, Henri

Other Creators: A. Gedis, Ben-Itzhac, Liana, Haas, Leo (1901-1983), Leopold Lewicki (1906-1973), Leskly, Eli (1911-2004), Margaret Singer (1921-2019), Müller, Moritz (1887-1944), Zielezinski, George

Extent: 0.0

Arrangement:

The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Record group is comprised of six collections: 1. Lev Haas collection; 2. Henri Pieck collection; 3. George Zielezinski collection; 4. Eli Leskly collection; 5. Moritz Mueller collection; 6. Collection of Polish artwork on Nazi camp life.

Subjects: day-to-day life in ghettos, day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps, Haas, Leo, Holocaust-related art, Lichtblau, Erich, Mueller, Moritz, Pieck, Henri, Postwar recollections of the Holocaust, Zielezinski, George

Languages: German, Czech, Polish

Abstract

These collections contains artworks in the form of graphics and watercolors created in the Nazi places of incarcerations and in the wake of liberation. The artists reflect on the inhumane conditions of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, as well as on relations between prisoners and relations between prisoners and the camp and ghetto German personnel

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This record group is comprised of various artworks including paintings, sculpture, metal-forms, and combined compositions. The works in this record group reflect the Holocaust through the artists’ lenses. A number of artworks commemorate the Holocaust in general, while some are dedicated to specific Holocaust-related events and landmarks.

Materials within this record group include lithographs, original sketches in pen on paper, placards, postwar prints, framed artworks of the modern period. Some of the artwork is digitized.

Collection Historical Note

Post-Holocaust art, like post-Holocaust literature, stands out because it was directly induced and influenced by the enormous tragedy that the survived European Jewry lived through. For the artists represented in this record group, largely former prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos, art became the platform for their testimonies and recollections. Lev Haas, Henri Pieck, Moritz Müller and George Zielezinski exemplify this approach in their post-Holocaust art, as did Erich Lichtblau, the chronicler of Theresienstadt ghetto life.

Biographical Note

Henri Pieck was an artist, interned at Buchenwald.

Subject/Index Terms

day-to-day life in ghettos
day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps
Haas, Leo
Holocaust-related art
Lichtblau, Erich
Mueller, Moritz
Pieck, Henri
Postwar recollections of the Holocaust
Zielezinski, George

Administrative Information

Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Access Restrictions: No restrictions

Use Restrictions:

Copyrighted materials, credits to and references to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust are required

Digital copies might be available upon request

Preferred Citation: RG-14, Holocaust-Related Art. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.

Processing Information: Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.

Box and Folder Listing

Sub-Collection 16: RG-14.16, Maurice Mendjisky, To the Memory of the Martyr Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto: To the Memory of the Martyr Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto: Graphics, 35 sheets, pencil on paper. Copyright by Serge Mendjisky, 1955. 35 drawings by Maurice Mendjisky, an unbublished poem by Paul Eluard, a text by Vercors. Translated by Mifa Martin.