Portrait, lot E. Schonfeld

Objet musée

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Inventory number : 04591
Title : Portrait, lot E. Schonfeld
Controlled denomination : Photographie
Object designation : Portrait photographique d'une femme réhaussé au crayon, possiblement Estera Schonfeld, survivante d'Auschwitz. La photo fait partie d'un lot de dessin et documents ayant appartenu à Schonfeld.
Matériaux : Papier
Techniques : Photographie, crayon
Dimensions : 40,0 cm x 29,5 cm
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Dating (period) : XXe siècle
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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?].