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Ernest (Hron) Auerbach

Born in Rožňava, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1898. Died in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1982.

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Self-Portrait, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Self-Portrait, Bratislava, 1944

Print on paper
30X20.1 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Self-Portrait, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Gisi Fleischmann as Joan of Arc, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Gisi Fleischmann as Joan of Arc, Bratislava, 1944

President of WIZO in Slovakia. Worked in the Emigration Department in the “Jewish Center”. One of the leaders of the Working Group.
Born 1897 in Bratislava, Austro-Hungarian Empire. From 1940, she worked in the “Jewish Center” in Bratislava. Arrested by the Gestapo in September 1944. In October 1944, transported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.
Diazotype on paper
33X24 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Gisi Fleischmann as Joan of Arc, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eugen Smetana, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eugen Smetana, Bratislava, 1944

Clerk in the Building Department.
Born in 1905. After the liquidation of the “Jewish Center” in Autumn 1944, deported to the Sered Labor Camp and from there, in April 1945, to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where he was liberated.
Title given by the artist: “My Homeland“
Pencil on tracing paper
29.9X20.1 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eugen Smetana, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Hermann Danzig, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Hermann Danzig, Bratislava, 1944

Construction engineer in the Building Department.
Born in 1892. After the liquidation of the “Jewish Center” in Autumn 1944, transported to Mauthausen. He was murdered in the sub-camp Wien-Floridsdorf in March 1945.
Title given by the artist: “All Rights Reserved to the Toilets”
Pencil on tracing paper
30X20.1 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Hermann Danzig, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Fridrich Drill, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Fridrich Drill, Bratislava, 1944

Construction engineer in the Building Department.
Born in 1891. In Autumn 1944, deported to the Sered Labor Camp and from there apparently to Auschwitz, where he was probably murdered.
Artist’s note: “Refused to sign due to political and economic reasons”
Pencil on tracing paper
30X20 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Fridrich Drill, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Ondrej Steiner, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Ondrej Steiner, Bratislava, 1944

Engineer. Head of the Building Department in the “Jewish Center”.
Born in 1908. After the war lived in the USA.
Pencil on tracing paper
30.1X19.9 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Ondrej Steiner, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Richard Schnabel, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Richard Schnabel, Bratislava, 1944

One of the directors of the Building Department in the “Jewish Center”.
Born in 1898. Survived.
Pencil on tracing paper
30X20.1 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Richard Schnabel, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eta Singerová, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eta Singerová, Bratislava, 1944

Clerk in the Building Department.
Born in 1907.
Pencil on tracing paper
30X20 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eta Singerová, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eugen Pless, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eugen Pless, Bratislava, 1944

Manager of acquisitions and finances, Building Department.
Born in 1889.
Pencil on tracing paper
20.1X30 cm
 

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Eugen Pless, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Růžena Heitlingerová, Bratislava, 1944
Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Růžena Heitlingerová, Bratislava, 1944

Clerk in the Building Department.
Born in 1914.
Title given by the artist: “Fast Typing Made by Růženka“
Pencil on tracing paper
20X30 cm

Ernest Auerbach (Hron) (1898-1982), Růžena Heitlingerová, Bratislava, 1944