Kwiaty Oświęcimia [Flowers of Auschwitz] by Zinowij Tolkaczew

Authors

Object ID

2019.2.242

Object Name

Book

Date

1945

Files

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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