Image of illustration of breakfast distribution in concentraction camp, 1950 (drawing) by Koscielniaka, Mieczyslawa (1912-1993)

illustration of breakfast distribution in concentraction camp, 1950 (drawing)

IMAGE number: FGL7177579
Image title: illustration of breakfast distribution in concentraction camp, 1950 (drawing)
Artist: Koscielniaka, Mieczyslawa (1912-1993) / Polish
Medium: drawing
Date: 1950 AD (C20th AD)

Image description: HOLOCAUST 'Instead of breakfast was distributed half a liter of a liquid ...' drawing by Mieczyslawa Koscielniaka, Polish graphic artist. He was interned when he was young, just after finished his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, in Oswiecim (Auschwitz) and then transferred to Mauthausen. After liberation, May 6, 1945, immediately began to draw scenes and characters of his experience. He produced a folder composed of 12 sketches entitled 'In the Valley of hunger'. Following his artistic career, he was greatly influenced by his terrible experience in the extermination camp. Drawing, Poland 1950
Photo credit: Fototeca Gilardi / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: 20th century / Germany / Europe / 1940s / 1950s / antisemitism / concentration camp / work camp / fight / deportation / drawing / art / Second World War (1939-1945) / war / argument / rivalry / hunger / famine / woman / history / Judaism / religion / Jewish / nazism / persecution / violence / breakfast / meal / Poland / prisoner / holocaust / uniform / clothes / everyday life / black and white / Third Reich / Auschwitz

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