oha 1983

Three Jewish anti-Nazi partisans during the Holocaust

Art: 1983
Media: Ink
Paper size: 8 3/16 inches H x 6 7/16 W

The drawing title is written in ink, at bottom:
Abba Kovner, last commandant of the United Partisan Organization in the Vilna Ghetto

In the post-war years Kovner lived in Israel where he was a poet. He testified at the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann.

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A 42-minute video includes Kovner’s testimony at the trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichman in Jerusalem, 1961.

Niuta ‘Wanda’ Teitelbaum, underground fighter in Poland

Art: 1983
Media: Ink
Paper size: 8 inches H x 6 W

The following, excerpted from an article in Lilith magazine (the article written by Janet Zandy, winter 1999 issue online) mentions Teitelbaum:

“Living for the impossible” appropriately describes the Jewish heroines of World War II. For a sense of solidarity and the kind of courage that staggers our imagination, the Jewish women who were resistance fighters, inside and outside the camps, are true models. In They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe, Yuri Suhl offers fragments of the lives of these forgotten women: Niuta Teitelboim, a left-wing student activist, was swept up into the Warsaw ghetto and became a member of the ghetto underground. She smuggled Jews out of the ghetto, and hand grenades and weapons into the ghetto. She brazenly shot and killed a German Gestapo officer in his own office. Arrested, tortured, and killed in 1943, she did not betray her comrades.”

The ‘Runner’ Mala Zimetbaum, Auschwitz heroine

Art: 1983
Media: Ink
Size: 5 5/8 inches H x  7 W

Belgian Jewish, of Polish Jewish descent, she born 26 January 1918 and executed on 15 September 1944.

Shamefully, Wikipedia’s board of trustees embrace Holocaust revisionism and Holocaust denial with their numerous text descriptions of Auschwitz as a “concentration camp.” Auschwitz-Birkenau was a mass murder – death – extermination camp. (Wikipedia states she was “….known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.”) In some other Wikipedia pages, the internment camps where mainland Japanese-Americans were incarcerated during WWII are also called concentration camps, which brings great joy to professional Holocaust deniers.

See Segan’s Real Change op-ed on the terminology of concentration and death camps [go to About the Artist, op-eds]