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Waiting to pass the visit Pencil sketch of a seated man created by Boris Taslitzky in Buchenwald concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38348
- English
- overall: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Drawing created by Boris Taslitzky in 1945 while he was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. It depicts a man in an overcoat, sitting on a bench. It was personally inscribed to a close friend in Paris after the war. Taslitzky joined the French military in August 1939 and served with the 101st Infantry Battalion. He was captured by the Germans in June 1940, but escaped and worked for the Resistance until recaptured in November 1941. He was sentenced to prison by a military tribunal for creating Communist propaganda. In 1944, he was deported to Buchenwald. Taslitzky recorde...