Art in Ausschwitz
- "The Sketchbook from Auschwitz" contains 22 pictures drawn in 1943 by an unknown prisoner at the camp.
- Jan Komski, Birkenau (Auschwitz II). Komski lived in one of these barracks
- Women are tattooed soon after arrival. This was a shocking greeting for new arrivals. This number was more important than a family name.
- After the execution in the gravel pit, some SS of the firing squad, pose proudly for snapshot.
- Executions had to be witnessed by the entire population of the camp. Everyone stood at attention and in complete silence.
- Corpses, stacked high in the Crematorium I storage chamber. The burial was simple - in the fire and smoke of the furnaces.
- Dissident artist Franciszek Jaźwiecki was producing hiddenly drawings in Auschwitz.
- The majority of the drawings include the subject's prisoner number.
- The Nazis prohibited drawing, and artists risked severe punishment, including death, for documenting their surroundings.
“The Sketchbook from Auschwitz” contains 22 pictures drawn in 1943 by an unknown prisoner at the camp.