Ink drawing of loaded wagons in a courtyard
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 17.625 inches (44.768 cm)
pictorial area: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
Archival History
The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Mark Talisman.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mark Talisman
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
Drawing of wagons being loaded in a courtyard created at Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The camp opened in November 24, 1941 and was in operation about 3.5 years, until May 2, 1945. The German SS imprisoned certain categories of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews in the ghetto, including many prominent intellectual or cultural figures. There was a large Technical Department where many artists were assigned to work, creating technical drawings, maps, etc. for the camp administration. Many of them secretly created works documenting the actual overcrowded, disease ridden conditions of the camp. The works were buried or hidden behind walls and recovered postwar. Roughly 140,000 Jews were sent to Theresienstadt; nearly 90,000 were sent to camps in the east where most died, and about 33,000 perished in Theresienstadt.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Sketch in black ink on paper with a perforated top edge depicting a large wagon makred with X's in a courtyard in front of 2 large buildings. It is piled high with bags and furniture an 2 people on the right load objects. On the left is another loaded wagon; on the right is an empty wagon in front of a large, 2 story, brick building. The drawing is in a windowpane mat, with a piece of paper with text taped to the back.
mat, back, on paper, black ink : stĕhováni svršků perokresba / 21 [Moving uppers line art] mat, back, right, cursive, pencil : Sudětské kasárnu si ???ela narychlo vyslidit (uvolnit pro Neuce kteri si tu uskladnili spisy. Prĕd koncem války tyto spisy / však shazovalí okny dolů a spalovalí) Eidi prěd definit???i?? / ?bztova?im ??sili na půdu jednotlivých kasàren [...can quickly hunt in the Sudetske barracks (release for the disrespect that you have stored up. Before the end of the war these writings however shall be cast out of the window and incinerated) ...on the soil of each barracks]
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Terezin (Ustecky kraj)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Czech Republic--Pictorial works.
- Concentration camp inmates as artists--Czech Republic--Terezin (Ustecky kraj)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Concentration camps in art--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Object
- Art