Images(3)

Barracks interior

Not on view

Date1941-11-24 - 1944-10-31

Mediumpen, ink and pencil on paper

Dimensionsoverall: 11 3/4 in x 8 3/16 in

ClassificationsDrawing

Credit LineGift of Herman and Gerda Korngold

Object number2631.89

Object DescriptionPen, ink and pencil drawing, barracks scene, showing bunk beds with clothing hanging off them, people standing and sitting. Signed bottom right PL. On reverse in pencil: #16.

Keywords

Ghettos
Terezin

NotesPeter Loewenstein, brother of Gerda Korngold, was born in 1919 in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia; grew up in Litomerice (Leitmeritz). He attended Charles University in Prague for engineering. Loewenstein was deported to Terezin (transport # AK 1, 361) fall 1941, where he worked in the technical department, executing drawings in pen and ink and watercolor. He was deported to Auschwitz 1944 where he perished. See MJH newsletter March 1990.

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