Leo Haas collection

Identifier: irn72627
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn72627

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Dr. and Mrs. Ivan Kalina.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a publication, 12 puvodnich litografii z německych koncentracnich taboru Leo Haas, a set of lithographs created by Leo Haas about the concentration camps where he was imprisoned during World War II, that was published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1947.

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Displaying items 1 to 13 of 13

Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn908
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 1 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. It depicts corpselike concentration camp inmates gathered for appell [roll call]: ."..long rows of white skulls, glowing as a mass seemingly less alive than cold light...." The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for six years, from 1939-1945. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, a...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn909
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 10 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fel...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn910
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 11 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fel...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn911
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 12 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fel...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn912
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Descriptive booklet for a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a ...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn913
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 2 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. It depicts corpselike concentration camp inmates gathered for appell [roll call]: ."..long rows of white skulls, glowing as a mass seemingly less alive than cold light...." The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then s...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn914
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 3 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn915
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 4 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn916
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 5 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn917
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 6 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn918
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 6 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn919
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 8 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn920
- English
- 1947
- Updated 7 months ago
Plate 9 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...