23 December 1900 | Pole Franciszek Jaźwiecki was born in Cracow. A painter.
No. 79042.
He illegally created many portraits of co-prisoners at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Gross-Rosen camps. He survived.
No. 79042.
He illegally created many portraits of co-prisoners at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Gross-Rosen camps. He survived.
“Not to see somebody else’s or your own eyes, so horrifyingly hopeless & strange, where, lurching in nearly every pair is the egoistic will to survive even at the cost of others, or at least not to find yourself in the first rank of those going to death.”
(Franciszek Jaźwiecki)
(Franciszek Jaźwiecki)
Some of portraits made by Franciszek Jaźwiecki.
Art created by prisoners in extreme conditions of #Auschwitz is a unique testimony. Artists documented crimes, saved identities of victims and tried to keep humanity in the world of death & dehumanisation.
See our online lesson 'Art at Auschwitz' lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_18_sztuka/
See our online lesson 'Art at Auschwitz' lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_18_sztuka/
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