Alexander Bogen collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517616
• English
• 1940-1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Two issues of a newspaper which Alexander Bogen helped produce when he was a member of a partisans group in the Naroch forest in Belarus: 1 is handwritten and 1 is printed.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517618
• English
• 1941-1943
• overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Woodcut by Alexander Bogen, depicting a German soldier menacing a Jewish woman and an elderly Jewish man. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania. Imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He joined the all-Jewish Nekhama (Revenge...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517619
• English
• 1944
• overall: Height: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm) | Width: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Lithograph created from a drawing done by Alexander Bogen, following the liberation of the Vilna, Lithuania, region. It depicts an armed partisan during World War II. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania. Imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupyi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517620
• English
• 1944
• overall: Height: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm) | Width: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Lithograph created from a drawing done by Alexander Bogen, following the liberation of the Vilna region. It depicts a little girl wearing a six-pointed star. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania. Imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517621
• English
• 1944
• overall: Height: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm) | Width: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Lithograph created from a drawing done by Alexander Bogen, following the liberation of the Vilna region. It depicts an old, Jewish couple. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania. Imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He joine...