Zdenka Eismannova collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47181
• English
• overall: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Watercolor created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The painting depicts the exterior of the leichenkammer or corpse chamber which is indicated in a poem on the front of the watercolor. Zdenka was deported from Prague to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943, to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47183
• English
• 1943
• overall: Height: 11.340 inches (28.804 cm) | Width: 8.070 inches (20.498 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; image shows a young boy wearing a yellow star; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47184
• English
• 1943
• overall: Height: 11.650 inches (29.591 cm) | Width: 8.030 inches (20.396 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; image shows interior scene of the women's barracks; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47185
• English
• 1943
• overall: Height: 11.730 inches (29.794 cm) | Width: 8.070 inches (20.498 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47186
• English
• 1943
• overall: Height: 11.770 inches (29.896 cm) | Width: 8.580 inches (21.793 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; image shows interior scene of women's barracks; originally housed in a carved wooden album depicting a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47187
• English
• overall:
• Updated 7 months ago

Album; originally housed 5 watercolor on paper created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was interned in Theresienstadt; carved wooden album depicts a view of Prague [front] and designs [back]. The artist of the watercolors, Zdenka Eismannova, born in Prague in 1897, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. From there she was deported on June 9, 1943 to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where she is presumed to have perished.