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1947 Cracow Flowers of Oswiecim / Zinovii Tolkatchev
LANGUAGE: HEBREW, ENGLISH
VG CONDITION, CLOTH COVERS
 
Three years after Russian artist Zinovii Tolkatchev enlisted in the Soviet Army he was stationed on the Ukrainian front, near the Majdanek concentration camp at Lublin. Horrified by what he witnessed, Tolkatchev spent over a month painting scenes from within the newly liberated death camp. Soon a member of the Polish-Soviet Nazi Crimes Investigation Commission encouraged Tolkatchev’s work and on November 26, 1944, his Majdanek paintings became one of the earliest artistic series to publicly document the Nazi death camps, opening in Lublin one day before the beginning of the Majdanek camp conmmanders’ trial. Tolkatchev then accompanied the Nazi Crimes Investigation Commission to Auschwitz, arriving within hours of the camp’s liberation by the Soviet Army on January 27, 1945. Using only materials immediately available, Tolkatchev made many of his drawings in pencil and on Nazi stationary taken from the commandant’s office. When Flowers of Oswiecim was published, the Polish Government sent copies of this edition to Allied heads of states, as well as government and military officers. Looking back on his work, Tolkatchev wrote, “I did what I had to do; I couldn’t refrain from doing it. My heart commanded, my conscience demanded,” and in 1965 he returned to the subject of the death camps with his series Auschwitz. Today many of his drawings are on exhibit at Yad Vashem in Israel.

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