Kwiaty Oświęcimia [Flowers of Auschwitz] by Zinowij Tolkaczew

Authors

Object ID

2019.2.242

Object Name

Book

Date

1945

Files

Description

Blue booklet with square, black illustration in center of cover, 63 pages.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

This booklet is the first edition of Tolkaczew’s illustrated reporting on Auschwitz and its liberation, and one of the earliest illustrated books about the Holocaust. Zinowij Tołkaczew (1903-1977) was a Soviet-Jewish graphic artist and painter who participated as a Red Army volunteer in the liberation of the concentration camps Majdanek and Auschwitz. His writing and drawings drew from his experiences with former prisoners in these camps.

Dimensions

6 1/4 x 4 1/4"

Keywords

Kwiaty Oświęcimia, Flowers of Auschwitz

Subcollection

Concentration, Post

Recommended Citation

"Kwiaty Oświęcimia [Flowers of Auschwitz] by Zinowij Tolkaczew" (1945). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.242.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1569