Diplômes et certificat de l'Académie
Objet musée
Inventory number : 17121
Title : Diplômes et certificat de l'Académie
Controlled denomination : Document certificat
Object designation : Deux certificats de passage datés du 30 juin 1967, ainsi que deux diplômes datés du 30 juin 1968, remis à Estera Schonfeld par l'Académie Royale des Beax-Arts de Bruxelles. Estera Schonfeld, survivante d'Auschwitz, y a suivi des cours de dessin d'après nature et de technique paysage et nature morte.
Matériaux : Papier
Techniques : Impression, manuscrit
Dimensions : 29,5 cm x 27,0 cm
Acquisition method : -
Source of acquisition :
Related people/organisations : Académie Royale des Beaux-arts
Dating (period) : 1967 - 1968
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Geographical provenance : Belgique, Bruxelles
Informations historiques : Description du témoignage de Schonfeld sur le site de Yad Vashem :(https://documents.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&search=global&strSearch=Estera Schönfeld&GridItemId=3558564)
Testimony of Esther Schonfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, regarding her experiences in Limburg, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Life in Medzilaborce before the war; difficult economic situation; move of her family to Belgium.
German occupation, 1940; move to Limburg; help to Jews; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including rescue from a pile of corpses; help to pregnant women; suffocation of newborn babies by nurses during medical experiments; labor in the "Canada" barracks; translates to Hebrew during Josef Mengele's visit to Bergen-Belsen; liberation.
Work in art with the aim of therapy; her paintings are exhibited in a museum near Haifa [The Ghetto Fighters' House?].