Album
Extent and Medium
overall:
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 album 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
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Carved wooden album
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Women concentration camp inmates--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Concentration camp inmates as artists--Czechoslovakia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Concentration camps--Czechoslovakia--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Object
- Office Equipment and Supplies