Selekcja (Selection)

On view

Historical LocationWarsaw, Poland, Europe

Dimensionsoverall: 6 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in

ClassificationsDrawing

Credit LineGift of David and Janet Rogowsky

Object number516.96

Object DescriptionSelekcja [Selection] pencil drawing. Title on back written by artist, Feliks Puterman. Line of men, women and children, some with bundles. Nazis motioning people to go in certain directions.

Collections

Documenting Nazi Ghettos
In the Galleries

Keywords

prisoners
Polish
Selections
Ghetto Art
Concentration Camp Art
Children
Visual arts
Defiance-religious and cultural
Warsaw

NotesFeliks Puterman was born on January 13, 1910 in Mszconow, Poland. He was born Samuel Puterman, was called Stephan/Stefan by the Polish couple who hid him during the war, and took Feliks as a false name which he continued to use postwar. Felix's wife Janet says he also often used “Stach” as a nickname. Felix studied art in Paris, exhibited in Paris, Warsaw and Germany, and returned to Poland in the summers. He was drafted in Polish army, captured, wound up in Warsaw ghetto, was in the Judenrat, smuggled out and hidden by Poles. He was sent to Oranienburg and then Sachsenhausen where liberated. The donor, Janet Rogowsky, also a survivor, met Feliks in 1945 and the two got married in 1947. Feliks died in 1955. Because of his skills, Feliks Puterman painted barracks, and might have had access in that way to materials. See related material in this donation, manuscript at USHMM, and Sabina-Korwyn-Piotrowska's 1985 testimony.

Exhibitions

The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do

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Odjazd do Tremblinki (Departure for Treblinka)

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