Born in Kovno, Russian Empire, in 1903. Murdered in Dachau, in March 1945.
"Life in the ghetto further broke my spirits, and I am unable to return to myself. I paint a little, and I sketch what one finds here. But I cannot return to myself."
From: Confession, an artistic menifesto by Jacob Lifschitz ,which was buried along with his artworks in the ghetto, 6.3.1944, Yad Vashem
Pencil and Ink on paper
34.1x25.2 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Crayon on paper
34.8x25 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Pencil on paper
24.7x17.7 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Pencil on paper
25.8x17.3 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Teacher
Ink on paper
34.3x25 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Teacher.
Born in 1872 in Frauenburg, Russian Empire. Lived in Memel. Married Shimon Burstein and had five children. Murdered in the ghetto in 1943.
Pencil on paper
34.6x24.7 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Clerk.
Born 1910 in Kovno. Murdered 1944 in the Kovno Ghetto.
Ink on paper
25x18 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Born in Virbalis, Russian Empire, in 1912. Married Jacob Lifschitz. The couple had a daughter, Pepa. In the ghetto, Lea worked in cleaning and cooking. After the Kinderaktion, together with her husband, she smuggled Pepa out of the ghetto to a Lithuanian family. Following the liquidation of the ghetto, she escaped reaching the river, from whence to the forest, where she hid for three months. After the war, she returned to Kovno and reunited with her daughter. Married Jacob Rosenkranz. Moved to Israel in 1957, and settled in Haifa.
Pencil on paper
24.7x18.1 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Born 1937 in Kovno to Julia and Grisha Rosenkranz. Deported with his mother and sister Ella to the Stutthof Concentration Camp, Germany and later to Auschwitz, where he was murdered at age seven, in July 1944.
Pencil on paper
35.4x25.4 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Watercolor on paper
34.9x25.9 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
