11 drawings from the series: camp life. Author: Siminski Wiktor.
A set of printed drawings in postcard format [format:15x10.5cm] made by a Polish prisoner of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, depicting very primitive and gruesome moments he witnessed during his captivity. In some cases very clear drawings depicting torture, death, sorrow, hunger, violence, abuse, etc.
Siminski Wiktor (1939-1945) KL Sachsenhausen.
He was in the camp for almost six years from the time of his arrest in 1939 and was one of the few prisoners who survived that long in the camp. Siminski designed boxes, photo frames, artistic pipes and illustrations - all while he was an inmate of the camp. The detailed testimony he wrote after the Holocaust about his experiences, part of which is now in the Sachsenhausen Museum, is considered one of the most detailed and important testimonies about the camp, and is still considered to this day the most significant testimony of any other about the day-to-day proceedings at the Sachsenhausen camp.Original drawings by Siminski in the collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum thanks to Alexander Kulisiewicz.
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