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Halina Olomucki

Born to the Olszewski family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1921. Died in Ashkelon, Israel, in 2007.

"While I was in Auschwitz-Birkenau someone told me, ‘if you live to leave this hell, make your drawings and tell the world about us. We want to remain among the living, at least on paper."Miriam Novitch, Lucy Dawidowicz, Tom L. Freudenheim, Spiritual Resistance.

Art from Concentration Camps, 1940-1945, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981, p. 17

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Self-portrait (?), Germany, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Self-portrait (?), Germany, 1945

    Pencil on paper
    18.3x11 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Self-portrait (?), Germany, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), The Armband Peddler, Ghetto Warsaw, 1942
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), The Armband Peddler, Ghetto Warsaw, 1942

    Pencil and crayon on paper
    20.5x13.6 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), The Armband Peddler, Ghetto Warsaw, 1942
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), After the Shearing of the Beard, Warsaw Ghetto, 1943
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), After the Shearing of the Beard, Warsaw Ghetto, 1943

    Pencil on paper
    19.6x13.6 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), After the Shearing of the Beard, Warsaw Ghetto, 1943
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), “Why?”, Germany, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), “Why?”, Germany, 1945

    Pencil on paper
    17.5x11.8 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), “Why?”, Germany, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), “Don’t shoot my mother!”, Auschwitz-Birkenau, c. 1944
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), “Don’t shoot my mother!”, Auschwitz-Birkenau, c. 1944

    Pencil and Charcoal on paper
    17.3X13.6 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), “Don’t shoot my mother!”, Auschwitz-Birkenau, c. 1944
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Resistance Fighter in Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Resistance Fighter in Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945

    Pencil on paper
    26x13.8 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Resistance Fighter in Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), The Last Worry 1944, Germany, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), The Last Worry 1944, Germany, 1945

    Pencil on paper
    20.5x13 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), The Last Worry 1944, Germany, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Bowl of Hot Soup, 1945
    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Bowl of Hot Soup, 1945

    Pencil on paper
    21.3x14 cm

    Halina Olomucki (1921-2007), Bowl of Hot Soup, 1945