Quatre carnets de croquis d'Estera Schonfeld

Objet musée

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Inventory number : 02945
Title : Quatre carnets de croquis d'Estera Schonfeld
Controlled denomination : Oeuvre d'art-dessin
Object designation : Quatre carnets de croquis et dessins ayant appartenu à Estera Schonfeld, survivante d'Auschwitz résidant à Bruxelles après la guerre. Ses dessins semblent dater de la période d'après-guerre, elle obtient des diplômes de l'Académie Royale des Beaux-arts en 1967 et 1968.
Matériaux : Papier
Techniques : Crayon
Dimensions : 25,0 cm x 17,0 cm
Acquisition method : -
Source of acquisition :
Related people/organisations : Schonfeld, Estera
Dating (period) : Deuxième moitié XXe siècle
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Geographical provenance : Belgique, Bruxelles
Informations historiques : Description du témoignage de Schonfeld sur le site de Yad Vashem :(https://documents.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&search=global&strSearch=Estera Schönfeld&GridItemId=3558564) Testimony of Esther Schonfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, regarding her experiences in Limburg, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Life in Medzilaborce before the war; difficult economic situation; move of her family to Belgium. German occupation, 1940; move to Limburg; help to Jews; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including rescue from a pile of corpses; help to pregnant women; suffocation of newborn babies by nurses during medical experiments; labor in the "Canada" barracks; translates to Hebrew during Josef Mengele's visit to Bergen-Belsen; liberation. Work in art with the aim of therapy; her paintings are exhibited in a museum near Haifa [The Ghetto Fighters' House?].