Watercolor
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 11.770 inches (29.896 cm) | Width: 8.580 inches (21.793 cm)
Creator(s)
- Zdenka Eismannova (Artist)
Biographical History
Zdenka Eismannova was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), in 1897. She was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in September 1942. Nine months later, on September 6, 1943, she was transferred to Auschwitz, where she is presumed to have perished.
Archival History
The watercolor painting was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Ron Neulinger.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ron Neulinger
Scope and Content
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Watercolor on paper; portrait view; image shows rows of beds with women sitting or lying on beds; tabbles in a row between bed; clothing hanging on walls on either side; rough drawing of a wagon and adhesive residue on reverse; embossed circle at bottom right hourglass-shape surrounded by rays over letters "ECO."
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camps--Czechoslovakia--Pictorial works.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Concentration camp inmates as artists--Czechoslovakia.
- Women concentration camp inmates--Biography.
Genre
- Art
- Object