George L. Salton collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn365
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 32.500 inches (82.55 cm) | Width: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) pictorial area: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 22.375 inches (56.833 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Watercolor painting of an execution at a mass open grave created by Lucjan Saltzman, later George Salton, at a displaced persons camp in 1946 in Neustadt, Germany. In 1941-42, twenty-three year old Lucjan was transferred from the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland to the concentration camp there. He was later deported to a number of concentration and labor camps, including Płaszów and Wieliczka in Poland, Colmar and Urbis, subcamps of Natzweiler in France, Watenstedt, a subcamp of Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, and Wobbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme in Germany. After liberation, he spent two years in variou...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521281
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 14.375 inches (36.513 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Drawing depicting the evacuation of a ghetto created by Lucjan Saltzman, later George Salton, at a displaced persons camp in 1946 in Neustadt, Germany. In 1941-42, twenty-three year old Lucjan was transferred from the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland to the concentration camp there. He was later deported to a number of concentration and labor camps, including Płaszów and Wieliczka in Poland, Colmar and Urbis, subcamps of Natzweiler in France, Watenstedt, a subcamp of Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, and Wobbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme in Germany. After liberation, he spent two years in various displaced ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521282
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 20.375 inches (51.753 cm) | Width: 17.250 inches (43.815 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Small study depicting an execution at a mass open grave created by Lucjan Saltzman, later George Salton, at a displaced persons camp in 1946 in Neustadt, Germany. It was a study for a watercolor painting, 1988.14.3. In 1941-42, twenty-three year old Lucjan was transferred from the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland to the concentration camp there. He was later deported to a number of concentration and labor camps, including Płaszów and Wieliczka in Poland, Colmar and Urbis, subcamps of Natzweiler in France, Watenstedt, a subcamp of Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, and Wobbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme in Ger...