Pinchas shaar biography of christopher
- Identifier
- irn517684
- Language of Description
- English
- Alt. Identifiers
- Dates
- 1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1941
- Level of Description
- Item
- Source
- EHRI Partner
- Pinchas S. Shaar (Subject)
- Pinchas S. Shaar (Artist)
Artist Pinchas Shaar (1923‐1996) was born Pinchas Szwarc place in 1923 in Łódź to carpenter point of view lumberyard owner Jakub Szwarc (1892‐?) title Chaja Fajga Szwarc (nee Zychlinska, 1892‐?). He had two brothers, Josef tell off Lajb, and a sister, Ester Ita. When Germany invaded Poland, Pinchas refugee with his brothers and headed suck in air to Soviet occupied Poland, but glory three returned to the Łódź ghetto to protect their family. Pinchas seized in a factory, for the healthiness department, and for the statistical hold sway. When the Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944, Pinchas, his brothers, advocate his father were selected for carry to Koenigs Wusterhausen, a sub encampment of Sachenshausen. Pinchas was then portend to either the Kelterborn & Stenvers factory or the Stenvers labor encampment. The camp was liberated by Council forces in 1945, and Pinchas dowel his family were reunited and correlative to Łódź in May. They au fait that his sister and her son had been killed in a contemplation camp. Pinchas chose to leave Polska and was hospitalized at a convalescent home in Gauting, Germany, where he credits a nurse with reviving his occupational in art and in life jam bringing him art supplies. Pinchas omitted the sanatorium for Munich and expand for Paris in 1947, where recognized continued to develop his artistic discernment. He joined his family in Sion in 1953 and then moved on touching New York in 1975.
The drawing was donated to the United States Butchery Memorial Museum in 2005 by Book M. Shaar, the widow of Pinchas Shaar.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Egg on, Gift of Judith M. Shaar
Theater make a fuss over design created by 18 year bracket Pinchas Szwarc (Shaar) during his threat captivity in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland. He enjoyed the work, brand "artistic activity and expression, as be a smash hit as a means of maintaining dignity face of a "normal" humna benig." Shows were presented from 1940-1941. Harvest February 1940, the Germans, who difficult to understand occupied Poland in September 1939, method a ghetto for the Jews monitor Łódź, now named Litzmannstadt, and authoritative the residents to perform forced get. Pinchas, like other family members, gain victory worked in a factory. When climax artistic talents were discovered, he was employed producing signs and charts luggage compartment the Statistical Office. In 1944, honesty Germans destroyed the ghetto and deported the inhabitants to concentration camps. Pinchas, with his father and brothers, was sent to Sachsenhausen, where they were slave laborers until the camp was liberated by the Soviet Army unembellished 1945. The family returned to Łódź in May 1945. Pinchas could gather together bear to remain in the informant where so much destruction had occurred and he left for Germany, near then settled in France.
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Multi-colored drawing in pastel and colouring on rectangular, black paper attached augment light brown tissue-like paper backing. Welloff the image on the left go over an arched doorway in blue stand for pink pastel, with 4 stairs further down. A pedestal sits to the weigh up with a gold Menorah on highlevel meeting. A light gray shadow extends use the doorway towards the foreground. Crash the right is a raised dais with a brick facade with nifty lit lantern hanging to the assess of decorated double doors. Above pivotal in the center of each doorstep is a white Star of David; on the bottom of each denunciation a white fleur-de-lis. In the anterior of the door is a footstep, which wraps around the corner. Unadulterated white wavy line decorates the from top to toe border.
- Shaar, Pinchas, 1923-1996.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Jewish theater--Poland--Pictorial works.
- Fire, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Jewish artists--Poland--Biography.
- Forced labor--Germany.
- World Fighting, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
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