A gift for Auschwitz Museum
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
12.12.2014 14:23
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A gift for Auschwitz Museum
A painting by David Olere, a French Jew who was born in Warsaw in 1902 and studied at the city’s Fine Arts Academy, has been donated to the Auschwitz Museum.
Photo: Auschwitz Museum / auschwitz.org
In 1943 Olere was deported to Auschwitz where he worked in the Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners forced by the Germans to operate the crematoria and gas chambers.
The fact that he survived the ordeal is described by Paweł Sawicki, press spokesman for Auschwitz Museum, as a miracle.
In his art, he tells Michał Kubicki that ‘we can see the various stages of the extermination [of prisoners], as well as the atmosphere of the camp, with starvation, fear and despair.’