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Auschwitz – painting, sculpture, graphics – a visual documentation album made by former prisoners of the concentration camps – first edition

Opening price: $150

Commission: 22%

05.08.2023 07:00pm

Oswiecim Malarstwo Rzezba Grafika – Auschwitz – painting, sculpture, graphics. by Domanski, Jerzy, published by Wydawnictwo Artystyczno, Krakow 1959 – first edition. Limited edition of 10,000 copies. Album cover designed by Maria Englisch, Editor: Jerzy Domanski. Polish Text.

An album of black and white images documenting the horrors of Auschwitz. Drawings, graphic designs, sculptures, and illustrations created by a large group of concentration camp survivors, including: Mieczyslaw Berman, Syrena Obozowa, Ksawery Dunikowski, Terresa Stankiewicz Mieczyslaw Koscielniak, Maria Spanards-Neuman, Buda Ogrorzenia, Hanna Wattczyk, Julian Studlawnicki, Mieczyslaw Koscielniak, Maria Spanards-Neuman, Buda Ogrorzenia, Hanna Wattcz, Julian Studlawnicki, Mieczyslaw Koscielniak. Jerzy Tymcik, Adam Branhuber, and others.

At the end of the album, a final note from Seweryna Szmaglewska – an Auschwitz survivor, who testified at the Nuremberg trials. Here she tells her story as a prisoner in Auschwitz from the day she arrived at the camp, and describes at length the most harsh period in Auschwitz – the time when the mass murders took place.

78 p. [of which 64 pages are pictures]. Album: 29×20 cm. Original hardcover, wrapped in fabric with original Dust Jacket. Everything complete. Good Condition.

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