Book
Creator(s)
- M. de Romilly (Publisher)
- Léon Delarbe (Author)
Archival History
The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Sybil Milton.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sybil Milton
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Published sketches created by Leon Delarbre while imprisoned by the Germans in Dora, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, where he was liberated on April 15, 1945.. Delarbre was arrested on January 3, 1944, for resistance activities against the German regime which had occupied France since June 1940. He was a trained painter as well as a jeweler and watchmaker. In 1935, he founded the School of Fine Arts in Belfort, where he was initially jailed. Friends helped him obtain scraps of paper and pencils to document prison life. He hid the drawings in his uniform to preserve them.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
xii, [83] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German--Pictorial works.
- Concentration camps in art.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe--Pictorial works.
- Concentration camp inmates as artists.
- Prisoners of war as artists.
Genre
- Books and Published Materials
- Object