UTW imagery sources
Many of the bird wings portrayed in Under the Wings artworks were drawn at the ornithology lab, Burke Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Washington, Seattle. I extend my appreciation and gratitude for invaluable staff assistance over the years.
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Many source photos used for drawings in the series were from the following books, especially during the early years of the series, 1991 to the mid 1990’s:
a) In the Ghetto of Warsaw – Heinrich Jöst’s Photographs. Edited by Günther Schwarberg; English translation by George Frederick Takis. Pub. by Steidel Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2001. ISBN 3 –
8243 – 214 – 4.
b) In the Warsaw Ghetto Summer 1941 – Photographs by Willy Georg with Passages from Warsaw Ghetto Diaries. Pub. by Aperture, NY, 1993. ISBN -83981-526-8
c) The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs, 206 Views Made in 1941, edited by Ulrich Keller.
Pub. by Dover Publications, NY, 1984. ISBN 0-486-24665-5
d) Warszawskie Getto 1943-88 W 45 Rocznicę Powstania. Pub. Wydawnictwo (Interpress), Warsaw, 1988. (The 45th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; background text, photos). ISBN 83 – 223 – 2465 – 0.
e) Varsgaver Geta en Bund – The Warsaw Ghetto in Pictures – Illustrated Catalog, 450 Pictures. Pub. by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Archives, Pictorial Div., NY, NY 1970. Text in English and Yiddish. No ISBN no. is printed.
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Notes, Sept. 2018 a)
While researching online for source imagery on drawings I had not saved info for, I learned that at least 4 photos I used for drawings (e.g. UTW 1 Muranow Trolley; UTW 22, Chana Bronstein’s manicure shop sign; UTW 31, Bar Mitzvah age boy; UTW 36, Young man w/ Star…) were photos taken by a German soldier photographer, Joe J. Heydecker, in the Warsaw ghetto, early 1941.
I also read that he was anti-Nazi in his personal beliefs and had testified against defendants at a Nuremburg war crimes trial. In the attached url, scroll down to the section titled
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Dec. 4, 2019: My apologies for any attribution I have erroneously misplaced, lost or for which I am not finding attribution for.
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UTW 1: Muranow trolley…
From a photo taken by Nazi soldier Joe J. Heydecker. Attributed to Heydecker in the Yad Vashem online photo archives:
https://photos.yadvashem.org/photo-details.html?language=en&item_id=21885&ind=29
There are several books of Heydecker’s Warsaw ghetto photos:
a) ‘Where is thy brother Abel? Documentary Photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto,’ (photos by) Joe J. Heydecker. Pub. (in English) by Atlantis Livros, Sao Paulo, 1981.
b) ‘The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944.’ Pub: St. Martins Press, 1991. The latter book is in several language editions. / The copy I own: Un Soldat allemande dans le ghetto de Varsovie 1941, pub. by Editions Denoël, Paris, 1986 with a dual copyright to Deustscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München, 1983.
UTW 2: Man tattered coat…
Photo in the chapter Ecce Homo (Ecce Homo from Latin: Behold the man), in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising (Interpress).
UTW 3: Child lifting head…
Photo in the chapter Zycie na ulicy (life on the street), in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising (Interpress). / The photo is in Vashaver Geta en Bund – The Warsaw Ghetto in Pictures (YIVO, N.Y., 1970), plate 165 / The photo is in The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, p. 157, pl. 165 (Yad Vashem).
UTW 4: Child with cap…
The 45th Anniversary of the WG uprising. The photo is in the chapter Dzieci (Children); that photo is on the page following the two-page photo used for UTW 15 (Children playing on W.G. street)
UTW 5: Old man praying…
The source photo for my drawing is pub. on p. 49, plate 78, Chapter: Worship, in The Warsaw ghetto in Photographs, 206 view made in 1941, ed. by Ulrich Keller. Dover Pub., 1984
UTW 6: Two standing children.
The photo is seen in the chapter Dzeici (Children), in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising (Interpress).
UTW 7: Infirm child, middle aged woman...
Jost photo, book plate 63 / It is in The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, p. 145, pl. 152 (Yad Vashem).
UTW 8: Young man w/ container.
The photo is in The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, p. 158, pl. 166 (Yad Vashem).
UTW 9: Two girls on sidewalk….
Heinz Jost photo, book plate 56 / The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, p. 149, pl. 156 (Yad Vashem).
UTW 10: Three Jewish prisoners jumping…
The 45th Anniversary of the WG uprising book. The photo is The balconies at upper left in the drawing were drawn from the first photo in the chapter Ogniem (Fire) in The 45th Anniversary of the W.G. Uprising book (Interpress). The smoke and fire, upper right of the drawing, was drawn from the third photo in the chapter Ogniem (Fire) in The 45th Anniversary of the W.G. Uprising book (Interpress).The three people seen falling from balconies in the drawing were drawn from three different photos, seen on the tenth and eleventh pages in that chapter, Ogniem (Fire). These photos were published in a facsimile edition of The Warsaw Ghetto is No More - The Stroop Report (Pantheon Books, NY, 1979).
UTW 11: Woman fighter after capture.
Drawn from a photo in the fourth page of photos in the chapter Powstańcy (Insurgents) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress).
The photo is in the facsimile edition of The Warsaw Ghetto is No More - The Stroop Report (Pantheon Books, NY, 1979).
UTW 12: Child on sidewalk.
Artists note, Nov. 2018. I’m looking for info on the source photo I had used. ~
UTW 13: Sh’ma
Drawn from photos of men worshipping, plates 75 – 82, in Varshaver geta en Bund (YIVO, 1970). The photo is in The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs, ed. by Keller (Dover). The trees I portrayed on top and the sides: Inspired by photo pl. 98, of a gravestone, Warsaw Jewish cemetery, in Time of Stones; photos by Monika Krajewska (Interpress, Warsaw, 1983).
UTW 14: Child with soup-plate…
Drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (Children) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress). The other child in that source photo was drawn in UTW 35 (Claustrophobia in the W.G), seen immediate upper left of the Identity card in the center.
UTW 15: Children playing…
Drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (Children) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress).
UTW 16: Aged girl standing…
Drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (Children) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress).
UTW 17: Two fighters....
a) Drawn from a photo in the second page of photos in the chapter Powstańcy (Insurgents) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress) / The photo is in The Stroop Report, facsimile edition (Pantheon Books, NY, 1979) /The photo is in My Brother’s Keeper - The Holocaust Through the Eyes of An Artist; paintings and text by Israel Bernbaum (Putnam, NY, 1985), p. 23 /
b) The border imagery was inspired by the border section of a color photo of a Persian ketubah (for a wedding) in the chapter Muslim lands, p. 35, pub. in Jewish Art & Civilization (Chartwell Books, Switzerland, 1972).The text states the ketubah is in the collection of Dr. Fishel Collection, Berkeley. In my artwork, in the border, I drew the lyrics, in Hebrew, of Hatikvah, the Israeli Jewish national anthem.
UTW 18: Child with waxed wings
Photo by Willy Georg, pub. in the book In the Warsaw Ghetto Summer 1941 (Aperture, NY, 1993). The photo is in the chapter Dzeici (Children) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress)
UWT 19: Father with daughter
The 45th Anniversary of the W.G. Uprising book. The photo is in the chapter Ecce Homo. The photo is in Vashaver Geta en Bund -The Warsaw Ghetto in Pictures (YIVO), plate 90, in the section titled Street Scenes. / The photo is on p. 148, pl. 155, in The Pictorial History of the Holocaust (Yad Vashem).
UTW 20: Rubinsztajn
I first learned of a photo of Rubinsztjan while visiting the YIVO Research Institute & Library, Manhattan, NY, perusing their paper card catalog, 1993. The librarian had the original photo, in plastic sleeve, brought from their vault. I ordered a print that they made from the original photo. / The baby cockatiels and the parent cockatiel (bottom) were drawn from cockatiels I was taking care of for a Seattle resident and acquaintance, Rivka Weed. / A Warsaw ghetto photo scene of a building with a signage proclaiming AŁE GLACH! can be seen in the Yad Vashem photo archives, photo FA 109/21~
UTW 21: Lebensraum
a) The two children: -- ?? Still looking, note – Dec 4, 2018.
b) The Polish word POSTOJ (no. 81) is in photo plate 28, by the late Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac, in A Vanished World (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, NY '86). During the 1930's Vishniac traveled through eastern and central Europe, including Germany, where he photographed Jewish life in the countryside and city alike, at great risk. A photographer could easily be considered a spy, and Vishniac took many photographs with a hidden camera. Postoj means station. In this context it referred to the artel of Jewish porters.
c) I forget which photo I used for the Lody – Eskimo (ice cream) shop signage. There are several. In the website of the USHMM, Washington, D.C., an unattributed photo, captioned ‘Jews walk along the street in the Warsaw ghetto in front of an ice cream shop.’
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa2634
UTW 22: Chana Bronstein manicure shop sign.
A Joe Heydecker photo. I don’t recall where I first saw the photo I drew the signage from. An internet search, Sept. 2018, led me to the photo archives at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, with a photo titled with the following including a different spelling for the surname Bronstein. It is captioned ‘Warsaw, Poland, A store sign: "Manicure-Chana Branstein".’ The photo attribution: ‘Joe J. Heydecker, a German soldier, in the Warsaw Ghetto in Early 1941.’ See notes for UTW 1, above re Heydecker.
UTW 23: Man with tallis (prayer shawl)
Vashaver Geta en Bund – The Warsaw Ghetto in Pictures (YIVO). Plate 152, in section Portraits. /
The photo is in The Warsaw ghetto in photographs, 1941, ed. by Ulrich Keller (Dover), p. 96, plate 152.
UTW 24: Child with quilt. Drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (Children), in The 45th Anniversary of the W.G. Uprising book (Interpress).
UTW 25: Smiling man…
The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs, edited by Ulrich Keller, p. 99, upper photo
UTW 26: Giettel Laski
Drawn from a photo provided by late Holocaust survivor Mrs. Chana Lorber of Warsaw and Seattle. Mrs Lorber survived the Warsaw ghetto, and slave labor at the Majdanek and Auschwitz death camps, and at a munitions factory concentration-death camp in Malchow, Germany.
UTW 27: Mordecai Anielewicz
From a photo published in books and seen on the internet. In autumn 2018 I saw a photo of Anielewicz, seen with 3 others with him, that I hadn’t seen before. It it undated in this website: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/anielewicz.html
/ The Illinois Holocaust Museum website has the same photo cropped and only showing Anielewicz, dated 1938.
UTW 28: Ceshia Mendrelawska
Drawn from a family photo provided by her great-niece, Anita Graham of Seattle.
UTW 29: Girl in rags
a) Drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (Children) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress) / The photo is pub. in Vashaver geta en Bund – The Warsaw Ghetto in Pictures (YIVO, NY, 1970), plate 258, in the section Hungry and Homeless children in the ghetto.
b) The wing (on viewers right) was drawn from a photo of a wing in the book The Wonder of Birds, National Geographic Society, 1983. Page 31, photo by J. H. Robinson, of a Roseate spoonbill in a Florida pond. I turned the photo upside down when I drew the wing.
UTW 30: Rachel Cyrkin
Draw from a photo provided by late French Hidden Child survivor and American immigrant Gisele Feldman. Ms. Feldman is the author of Saved by the Spirit of Layfayette, pub. by Nelson Pub. and Marketing, 2008. / An online bio of Ms. Feldman.
/ A 57 min video of a talk by Ms. Feldman, Ann Arbor District Library, Michigan (the video does not have cc’s)
UTW 31: Bar Mitzvah age boy
a) A Warsaw ghetto photo taken by Joe Heydecker. I don’t recall where I first saw the source photo for this drawing. An internet search, Sept. 2018, brings up the following surprising caption (surprising to me - as I had always assumed this was a child, probably adolescent age) in the Yad Vashem photo archives, Jerusalem: ‘Warsaw, Poland, A young woman and a girl begging in the street.’ The attribution states ‘Warsaw, Poland, Photos taken by Joe J. Heydecker, a German soldier, in the Warsaw Ghetto in Early 1941.’ [Also see notes for UTW 1, above]
b) The wing on viewers right was based on a photo, p. 168 (left page, upper left) in the book ‘The Sea Has Wings,’ pub. by Dutton, 1973. The bird, an arctic tern; photo by Russell T. Line.
c) The wing on viewers left was loosely based on a photo, p. 100, in ‘Feathers and Flight,’ Clarence J. Hylander, author, pub. by MacMillan, NY, 1959. Photo of an Osprey, aka Sea Hawk, by R.T. Peterson, from National Audubon.
UTW 32: Laja Lederman & daughters Zosia & Hanah
a) Photo provided by the Lederman’s granddaughter, U.S.
b) The writing at bottom center is from the front plate page of a Jewish religious book, published in Vienna in 1820, that I bought in an antique store in Budapest, Hungary, 1985.
UTW 33: Everyone’s zayde
Photo of Wiesel’s maternal grandfather published in the first volume of Elie Wiesel’s memoir, ‘All Rivers Run to the Sea,’ pub. by Alfred Knopf, NY (ISBN 978-0-679-43916-5), and used with permission of Elie Wiesel.
UTW 34: Man playing violin.
Jost photo, book plate 25. From Jost's photo note: "This man was playing the same notes on his violin over and over again. His eyes followed me; I'm not sure if it was out of fear or because he was hoping for a coin. I believe this was also in Nowolipki Street." / The photo is on p. 123, The Pictorial History of the Holocaust (pub. by Yad Vashem, 2000
UTW 35: Claustrophobia in the Warsaw ghetto
a) Center: The Judenrat issued labor card, center, of a ghetto prisoner named Frydrych Zelman. Drawn from a photocopy provided by the YIVO Research Institute and Library, N.Y.
b) A quote about Zalman: “It was Zalman Frydrych, a Bundist “courier” (the term for those who smuggled themselves in and out of the ghetto on various dangerous missions) who, with assistance from a non-Jewish Polish socialist railway worker, made a gruesome discovery: that deportation trains leaving the ghetto were not transporting Jews in their thousands for “work in the east” but sending them instead to a death camp at Treblinka.” (quote from the April 2017 published article, “Warsaw Jews fight and die for freedom,” in the website Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
c) Most of the other in the surrounding areas of the drawing were inspired by photos in The 45th Anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising book (Interpress) including
d) The drawing imagery of a girl holding another girl, to the upper right of the ID card at center, from a photo in the chapter Zycie w getcie (Life in the ghetto).
e) The barricades, center left in the drawing, the photo is in the chapter Tworzenie dzielnicy zamknię (Formation of the closed area).
f) The second image from right, bottom, depicting 2 boys, was drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (Children).
g) The child’s head portrayed upside down, to the immediate upper left of the Identity card (center), was drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (children). The other child in that source photo was drawn in UTW 14 (Child with soup-plate).
h) The girl (upper right hand corner of the drawing): Drawn from a photo in the chapter Dzieci (Children) in The 45th Anniversary of the WG Uprising book (Interpress).
i) The large figure at the immediate lower left of the Judenrat identity card was drawn from the first plate in the chapter Śmierć w getcie (Death in the ghetto), The 45th Anniversary of the W.G. Uprising (Interpress).
j) A Jost photo was used as source material in UTW 35: A man with his legs on the sidewalk, back against a building wall, seen at upper left in my drawing, Jost photo, book plate 27
h) A man, lying on a sidewalk,
UTW 36: Young man w/ Star.
a) Sept. 2018 notes: I don’t recall where I first saw the photo I used for my drawing. The photo, in the online archives, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is captioned: ‘Warsaw, Poland, A man in rags in the ghetto.’ Attribution states ‘Photos taken by Joe J. Heydecker, a German soldier, in the Warsaw Ghetto in Early 1941.’ The photo url.
/ The photo is in the Joe J. Heydecker book, Un Soldier in the Warsaw ghetto, 1941 , see notes for UTW 1, above.
b) Drawing imagery in the figure There are images inspired by black & white photos in the Wooden Synagogues book (edited by Maria Piechotka, Kazimierz Piechotka, pub. by Politechnika Warszawska. Zakład Architektury Polskiej. Arkady, Warsaw, 1959).
c) There is drawing imagery in the figure also inspired by photos in Monika Krajewska’s Time of Stones (Interpress, Warsaw, 1991).
d) The orthotic shape, with Hebrew writing, lower center, was inspired by a b&w photo in the book The Last Jews of Eastern Europe, text by Yale Strom, photos by Brian Blue (pub. by Rowman & Littlefield, 1990)
UTW 37: Lejzor Lederman…
Photo provided by the Lederman’s granddaughter, U.S.
UTW 38: Goldberg, Benguigui
Black and white photos of Goldberg, his drawing of a cowboy on a horse, and Benguigui’s doodle are published in The Children of Izieu – A Human Tragedy, by Serge Klarsfeld (Abrams, NY, 1984)
UTW 39, 40, 41: boy, girl, gray bearded man
Page 74 photo: In the Warsaw ghetto - Summer 1941, photographs by Willy Georg (Aperture, 1993).
UTW 42: click to separate page
UTW 43: Three men on Warsaw ghetto street
Vashaver Getae en Bund – The Warsaw Ghetto in Pictures (YIVO, 1970). Photo plate 130, in the section titled Market Scenes.
/ p. 83, plate 130, The Warsaw ghetto in photos, ed. by Keller (Dover).
UTW 44: Kamil Hahn
a) Photo provided by late survivor-refugee Alexander Schwarz of Vienna, Austria and Seattle.
b) re Hahn: According to the website https://www.holocaust.cz he was first sent to the town of Třebíč, where I assume he was imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto. From there he was sent on transport 652, May 18, 1942, to the Nazi concentration-death camp at Terezin [aka Theresienstadt].
On Sept. 1, 1942 he was sent on transport 363 from Terezin to a Nazi concentration-death camp, Jägala, near the Raasiku railway station in Estonia, where he was murdered.
c) Included in the imagery are interpretative drawings of an early 20th century Viennese watch; a 1920’s Vienna trolley ticket. The trolley ticket was inspired by pl. 403, page 204, in the book And I Still See Their Faces – Images of Polish Jews, Fotografia Zydów polskich, – I ciᾳgle widzę ich twarze (pub. by Fundacja Shalom).
d) I probably drew the Mickey Mouse from the toy given to me by a former girlfriend.
The toy mouse was late embedded, left side, in the mosaic of UTW 62 (Zlata Barshewsky)
UTW 45: Hitler’s yo-yo, Zisl, Bonhoeffer…
a) Zisl (upper left), from a photo in Image Before My Eyes – A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust, authored by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Schocken Books & YIVO, NY, ’77). The photo caption: Zisl, the street musician. Staszow, 1930’s. Photographer: Avrom Yosl Rotenberg family / Simkhe Rotenberg Collection.
b) Bonhoeffer (at left): from a photo of him when he was a boy, pub. in Dietrich Bonhoeffer – A Life in Pictures, by Eberhard Bethge, Renate Bethge and Christian Gremmels (Fortress Press, Philadelphia, ’86).
c) The upper part of the yo-yo: Drawn from a black and white illustration of the frontispiece of a Papal Bull pub. in The Holocaust / The World and the Jews, 1933-1945, by Seymour Rossel (Behrman House, NJ ’92).
d) The 2 spheres, lower part of the yo-yo. The sphere on the left was drawn from a drawing, page 266, plate 122, in the book Synagogues of Europe / Architecture, History, Meaning, author Carol Hershelle Krinsky (pub. by Dover Books, NY, 1996)
e) The sphere at right was drawn from a color photo in the (hardcopy) 2001 World Jewish Congress calendar. This is in the month April; the caption below the (unattributed) photo: “Beautiful and ornate onion domes rest atop the towers on Budapest’s Dohany Street synagogue, the largest synagogue in Europe, which was consecrated in 1859.”
f) The chicken was drawn from was drawn from a photo of a Bremen chicken, pub. in Extraordinary Chickens, photos by Stephen Green-Armitage (Harry Abrams, NY, 2000).The chicken’s head was drawn from the 2-page photo of a “Hamburg – Silver Spangled.”
UTW 46: Hershl Grynspan
There are photos of Grynspan seen on the net. I forget what photo I’d used for my drawing. The fish at lower right in the drawing was drawn from a black and white drawing of an Angler, or Devil fish, in a plate of fish illustrations in Hill’s Practical Reference Library of General Knowledge, Vol. II (pub. by Dixon, Hanson & Co., Chicago, 1905). The other imagery was from my imagination, aside from the portrayal of the plant in a ceramic clay pot, which was in my apartment.
UTW 47: Anna Plockier
a) The portrait was drawn from a photo pub. in The Letters & Drawings of Bruno Schulz, edited by Jerzy Ficowski (Harper & Row, NY, 1988).
b) The gravestones (left, right) were inspired by photos in Time of Stones, photos by Monika Krajewska (Interpress, Warsaw, 1983). The hands (upper left) from a gravestone, pl. 18, Cracow.
The gravestone on viewers right, from a gravestone, pl. 61, Lesko.
c) The boat with two people was inspired by a black & white photo by Gustav Hansson of Sweden, in U.S. Camera Annual 1952 (pub. by U.S. Camera Publishing Corp., NY.)
d) The peach-faced love bird, lower left, was a pet belonging to D’vorah Kost, a friend of the artist. The bird agreed to be drawn in the drawing while Ms. Kost was out-of-town and Segan was pet sitting the bird for Ms. Kost. The cockatiel, seen at upper left, was a pet bird belonging to the artist.
UTW 48: Eugenio Curiel
a) Upper left in the drawing: Castel Sant’angelo: Drawn from a photo in The Italians and the Holocaust – Persecution, Rescue, Survival, by Susan Zuccotti (Basic Books, NY, 1987).
b) The battery-operated chicken toy, which I called “Obi ‘Jew-Jew’ Kenobi” in the artwork title, had been a birthday gift to me from a girlfriend, Linda Joyce Burns, of Missouri.
c) The mask, lower center: This might have been a compilation interpretation I drew, in part from a reproduction of a Judensau engraving, seen in the book The Art of Hatred – Images of Intolerance in Florida Culture, pub. by the Jewish Museum of Florida, 2001.
UTW 49: Joop Westerweel
a) Photos and articles on Westerweel are seen in the internet, e.g. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; USHMM, Washington, D.C. and others.
b) Other imagery surrounding my portrait of Westerweel seen in the center of the drawing include various sketchbook sketches of mine; and drawings I did directly on the drawing paper. The sketchbook sketches include birds I drew at the Woodlawn Park Zoo, Seattle and the West Palm Beach, Florida zoo; Jerusalem building sketches drawn in; sketches of a co-workers pet mouse; a sketch of a pet parakeet of mine; a sketch of my father (upper right).
c) The Neu! Hendl Wie … wordage (bottom center) were drawn from a McDonald’s paper placemat I’d saved from eating at a McDonald’s in Vienna, Austria, 1985.
UTW 50: Gypsy boy..
a) The portrait: Drawn from a photo courtesy of the Bundesarchiv (National Archives), Koblenz, Germany, which I first saw on the website of the US Holocaust memorial Museum. I bought a print from the Bundesarchiv with the agreement that I would not reproduce the photo.
b) The bird seen on viewers right (above his left shoulder) was inspired by a photo by Susan Middleton & David Liittschwager, in the book Witness – Endangered Species of North America. (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA., ’94). The bird is a red-cockaded woodpecker; the caption states: Photographed Feb. 21, 1992 at Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississipi.
c) The white horse like animal was drawn from my imagination. The flowers at left from flowers I bought in a store. The Frei signage and vertical post (viewers right) from Auschwitz death camp photos.
UTW 51: Robert Desnos
Drawn from a photo of Desnos pub. in The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos. Translators: Carolyn Forche, William Kulik; intro. by Kulik (pub. by Echo Press, N.Y., 1991)
UTW 52: Erwin Shulhoff
a) The portrait (center of the drawing) from a photo published in the article, Music Silenced By the Nazis Finds Its Voice, by Jeremy Eichler (NY Times, April 30, 2004). The photo had an attribution to Delta Music. I don’t know how Delta Music acquired the photo of Schulhoff or how and where the original photo was located.
b) Some of the music notes in the right wing (on viewers left) were drawn from a reproduction of the title page of the “Composition for a Male Chorus” by Pawel Haas, “Al S’fod,” p. 80 in the book Music in Terezin, 1941-45. Edited by Joza Karas (Beaufort Books, NY ’85)
c) Other musical notes depicted are from Bach, Beethoven, and the Song of the Peabog Soldiers, a concentration camp song that was sung by prisoners in concentration-death camps. Haas, a composer, was Czech Jewish. He was born in Brno, 1899. He was murdered at the Auschwitz death camp, Oct. 17, 1944.
UTW 53: Leone Ginzburg
a) There are a number of black and white photos of Ginzburg seen in the internet. I forget where I first saw the photo of Ginzburg I used for my interpretative drawing.
b) The following 3 image sections in my drawing were inspired by the following plates/photos seen in the book Jewish Art & Civilization, edited by Geoffrey Wigoder (Chartwell Books, 1972), chapter 3, Italy, authored by Shlomo Simonsohn:
1. The castle at upper left, inspired by plate, p. 115, the “Printer’s Flag” of Gershom Soncino, 15th to early 16th C., reproduced from the collection of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. 2. The Chanukah menorah at bottom center, drawn from a photo of a 15th C. Italian lamp, p. 98. The lamp is in the collection of the Israel Museum, 188/606 Feuchtwanger collection. 3. Torah finial at top center: Upper left photo, p. 126, of an 18th C. Rimonim ornament, Venice, reproduced from the collection of the Porgtuguees Israelietische Gemeente, Amsterdam.
c) Two other areas in my drawing were drawn from a) The pier of the left wing (seen on viewer’s right): Drawn from a photo taken by the artist on the old stone pier in the the Corfu harbor, Greece, 1985
d) The boats and ferry (lower right): Drawn from a window in my apartment looking out over Western Ave, which had a small view of Puget Sound. I lived there, in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, from spring 1990 to spring 2009.
UTW 54: Sophie Scholl.
Drawn from a photo of Scholl, age 17, in the book At the Heart of the White Rose, Letters & Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl. Edited by Inge Jens. (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1987). / The photo is published, cropped at left, and blurry, p. 60, in Seis millones de veces – uno el Holocausto, pub. by the Ministerio del Interior, Republica Argentina.
UTW 55: Legless amputee, a man on a cart, Warsaw’s Jewish district
a) The man in the cart was inspired by a Roman Vishniac photo, plate 34, pub. in A Vanished World – Roman Vishniac; forward by Elie Wiesel (pub. by Schocken Books, 1947; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983). The caption states This man had lost his legs in a Russian pogrom thirty years before. Warsaw, 1937.
b) top; The six silver cups were drawn from cups I bought at a shop in Jaffa, Israel in 2007. Some viewers may perceive seven; one cup is broken.
c) Upper right, center right: The Jewish Bible (upper right) and the siddur – a prayer book with a metal plate cover, published in Jerusalem (center right) were gifts from the congregational community of Temple Shalom, New Hyde Park (Queens), N.Y. for my Bar Mitzvah, February 16, 1963.
d) Lower right: The Jewish Folktales book is a book in my home library. Edited by Pinhas Sadeh; translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin (pub. by Anchor Books- Doubleday, N.Y., 1989).
e) Lower left: I borrowed The Geography of Israel book from Seattle Public Library. It was likely the 1971 book of that title by Efraim Orni, Elisha Efrat
f) Upper left, center right on the mat: The sabbath candle sticks are from Kenya. I bought them at a Seattle department store closing sale when the store was going belly-up, 1990s.
UTW 56: Fiorella Anticoli…
Drawn from a photo of Fiorella Anticolli taken when she was 12 years of age. I first saw the photo in 1999 at the Children’s Museum, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. The original photo is in the collection of the Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (aka CDEC), Milan, Italy.
/ The photo is in The Italians and the Holocaust – Persecution, Rescue, Survival, by Susan Zuccotti (pub. by Basic Books, N.Y., 1987)
UTW 57: Life & death in the ghetto
a) The two children in my drawing, center: Jost photo, book plate 57 / I first saw the photo in the book Seis millones de veces (pub. by Republica Argentina, Ministerio del Interior). / A blurry reproduction of the photo is in The 45th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Interpress, Warsaw, 1988). / The photo is on page 141, pl. 147, in The Pictorial History of the Holocaust (pub. by Yad Vashem, 2000)
b) The drawing imagery inside the upper and lower parts of the Star of David: The painted sections with Hebrew writing (above and below the drawing of the children); and the Torah crown drawn at top inside the Star of David shaped wood frame section were inspired by black & white photos in the book Time of Stones, photography by Monika Krajewska (Interpress, Warsaw, 1983).
UTW 58: Jehovah’s Witness…
There are 3 photos of the prisoner in The Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Nazis – Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933-1945. Authors: Michel Reynaud, Sylvie Graffard (pub. by Cooper Sq. Press, 2001). Introduction by Michael Berenbaum. Photo attribution in the book: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum & Memorial, Poland; USHMM Photo Archives.
UTW 59: Mira Steiner…
a) The figure was drawn from a photo provided by the victim’s nephew, Dr. Dani Novak, a retired math professor, Ithaca College, N.Y. Born in Haifa, Dr Novak’s parents were both Croatian Jewish Holocaust survivors. I met Dr Novak while I guest lectured at Ithaca College, April 2002
b) The mosaic section seen at bottom (not the tiles on the base) was made with broken tiles, stones and a fossilized bone I picked up alongside roads in, around and near the Old Walls of Jerusalem, May 2007. One stone among them I picked up (from among hundreds of rocks and stones around the graves, where there are also weeds, plants, an occasional tree, and debris) was from the Christian cemetery where Oskar Schindler is buried near the Old Walls and not far from the Western Wall. This particular Christian cemetery has two main sections, Christian Arab and Polish Catholic.
c) The Jew Fish wordage (bottom of the drawing) and the fish seen on her right side (seen at viewer's left, as the drawing is "upside down" - she's depicted falling, head first) was visually inspired by a package of Jew Fish I bought at a Vietnamese grocery Seattle's International District, winter-spring 2007. The plastic wrapped packages of dried Jew Fish were in a refrigerated shelf section near packages of salmon, catfish and other fish. /
d) The drawing of Mira, on her right leg (seen at viewer's left): Drawn from a black and white reproduction of a page in the Sarajevo Haggadah, a facsimile copy of which I had borrowed from Seattle Public Library.
e) The dominos, top of the mosaic, were from a family set of my own family, ca. 1950’s
f) The architectural area at viewers left of the figure drawing: Drawn from a photo of the Subotica, Serbia, synagogue exterior, pub. in the book Synagogues Without Jews, photos and text by Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman (pub. by Jewish Publication Society, 2000. ISBN 10: 0827606923; ISBN 13: 9780827606920) / A 2013 online article about the Dorfman’s.
UTW 60: Orthodox Jewish prisoner…
a) The source photo (unattributed in the book) appears on page 63, The Pictorial History of the Holocaust (pub. by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 1990).
Later I wrote the Yad Vashem library asking for info about the photo; I saved this excerpt from the reply letter: “...We assume that it was taken in the Polish town Olkusz in July 1940 during the so-called “Bloody Wednesday”. You can find more about this event and compare the photo with photos of this event here: http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/our_collections/olkusz/index.asp
Unfortunately we cannot confirm this thesis due to lack of written proof or confirmation”
b) The menorah at upper right, mosaic, also drawn in the drawing, below the area of the victim’s right armpit (seen on viewers left). Drawn from a black and white photo, pl. 85, in Monika Krajewska's book Time of Stones (Interpress, Warsaw, 1983); the gravestone is in Sieniawa.
c) Some Hebrew writing in the drawing was inspired by a gravestone in the Jewish cemetery, Lubaczów (Time of Stones) and a lion like animal on a gravestone in Bobowa (Time of Stones, pl. 79)
d) the candlesticks at lower right (mosaic) were inspired by a photo of a gravestone in Szydłowiec (Time of Stones, pl. 118)
e) a lions head (seen in the drawing to the right of the man’s head and right of the left arm, which is on viewers right, with tefillin straps on the arm) was inspired by a gravestone photo, p. 163, from a gravestone in Lubaczów (Time of Stones).
UTW 61: Multiple amputee
From a photo I first saw on the internet. Note, Dec. 4, 2018: I’m only now finding this photo in a
UTW 62: Zlata Barshewsky
a) Drawn from family photos, many given to me by a cousin of my mother. One or two were from my mother’s sister Rosa Graff Madell, who visited Zlata in the late 1920’s again in the early or mid 1930’s. My mother’s cousin, raised in Lithuania, was Genia Dayan. She lived in Israel from around 1957 until her death, 2014.
b) The menorah at upper right was probably inspired by the same gravestone menorah, of Sieniawa, Poland, used for my source imagery at upper right, UTW 60, from a Monika Krajewska photo in the Time of Stones book.
UTW 63: Pére Jacques…
Internet photos. I first learned of Pere Jacques when I saw Louis Malles film Au revoir les enfant in the late 1980’s. The photo I used for my drawing can be seen in the Yad Vashem website. Unfortunately the accompanying text is not designed in readable, accessible nor functional graphic design (as it’s shown in light value, gray font).
UTW 64: Sandro Delmastro…
From a photo I first saw on the internet. The quest to find photos of Delmastro was from reading the chapter Iron, in The periodic Table, by Primo Levi. Italian: Il Sistema Periodico.
UTW 65: I’m just knockin’…
From photos I saw ontheinternet of disabled Jewish Aktion T-4 inmates at Buchenwald
UTW 66: The sea monsters, child Kielce
The child drawn from a photo I first saw in the USHMM photo archives, photo number 03273 and that the child is holding a piece of bread, dated January 1, 1942. The USHMM website also shows a photo of this child in an ID card; and a third photo shows the child standing with other children and an adult. / From the USHMM website: “An identification card bearing a photo of a child holding a cup and a piece of bread in the Kielce ghetto. An official ID card was required to receive food rations at the soup kitchen organized by the Jewish Social Self-help Committee of the Jewish Council. The ID card was issued for the month of May 1941, and was valid only for breakfast. The inscription in Polish reads, ‘1,600 morning meals served daily.’ This photo was one the images included in an official album prepared by the Judenrat of the Kielce ghetto in 1942.”
UTW 67: Milena Jesenska
Drawn from a photo I first saw in 'Franz Kafka - Letters to Milena' (pub. by Schocken Books, N.Y., 1990)
UTW 68: ks. Hieronym Gintrowski
Drawn from a photo I first saw on the internet. A Polish website on martyred Polish clergy, this page is about Gintrowski.
UTW 69: Ernst Lossa….
Drawn from an internet photo. Later, after I did the drawing, I saw internet articles about a book and a movie about Lossa. A 2017 published website article on the (Robert Domes authored) book and German - Austrian movie, released autumn 2016,’Fog in August’ (Nebel im August).
UTW 70: Franco Cesana
The portrait of Franco was from a photo in Susan Zuccotti’s The Italians and the Holocaust – Persecution, Survival, Rescue (Basic Books, N.Y., 1987). The building at lower right in my drawing was inspired by the color photo in the chapter Bologna, seen in the book The Guide to Jewish Italy, by Annie Sacerdoti; photos by Alberto Jona Falco (Rizzoli, N.Y., 2003, 2004). The photo description in the book: “Palazzo Bocchi in Via Goito. The façade of this building has a Hebrew inscription from Psalms and a Latin inscription from Horace. In the 16th century the palazzo housed the Accademia Ermatena, a literary academy.”
UTW 71: Settela Steinbach
The photo of Settela, from film footage taken by a German - Jewish slave laborer and photographer, Rudolph Breslauer (b. July 4, 1903; d. murdered at the Auschwitz death camp, Feb. 28, 1945) is widely reproduced. It is seen in this Holocaust Memorial Day UK website page.