Halina Olomucki collection

Identifier: irn47411
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47411

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Halina Olomucki.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artwork created by Hanna Olomucki based on her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and as an inmate in the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14050
- English
- 1945
- overall: Height: 7.240 inches (18.39 cm) | Width: 5.240 inches (13.31 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Drawing created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) in Warsaw after the war. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland in September 1939, Halina, her mother Margarit-Hadassa, and siblings were interned in Warsaw Ghetto. Hannah did forced labor, but she felt her real job was to record the misery and suffering of ghetto residents. Halina smuggled drawings to a non-Jewish friend outside the ghetto. In May 1943, she and her mother were sent to Majdanek where her mother was killed on arrival. Halina was selected for labor. In July, she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After she was put on an art...
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14051
- English
- 1947
- overall: Height: 9.130 inches (23.19 cm) | Width: 8.270 inches (21.006 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Drawing created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) in Warsaw after the war. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland in September 1939, Halina, her mother Margarit-Hadassa, and siblings were interned in Warsaw Ghetto. Hannah did forced labor, but she felt her real job was to record the misery and suffering of ghetto residents. Halina smuggled drawings to a non-Jewish friend outside the ghetto. In May 1943, she and her mother were sent to Majdanek where her mother was killed on arrival. Halina was selected for labor. In July, she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After she was put on an art...
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14052
- English
- 1945
- overall: Height: 6.890 inches (17.501 cm) | Width: 8.270 inches (21.006 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Drawing created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) in Warsaw after the war. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland in September 1939, Halina, her mother Margarit-Hadassa, and siblings were interned in Warsaw Ghetto. Hannah did forced labor, but she felt her real job was to record the misery and suffering of ghetto residents. Halina smuggled drawings to a non-Jewish friend outside the ghetto. In May 1943, she and her mother were sent to Majdanek where her mother was killed on arrival. Halina was selected for labor. In July, she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After she was put on an art...

Halina Olomucki collection

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