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Leo (Lev) Haas

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Emil Eisler, Nisko Camp, 1940
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Emil Eisler, Nisko Camp, 1940

Engineer in the smelt house in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. The „Elder of the Camp“ in Nisko.
Born 1887 in Vlachovice, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Deported to the Nisko Labor Camp, in October 1939. In February 1940, he was freed upon the intervention of his Swedish friends. Eisler returned after the war to Ostrava. Later he moved to Stockholm.
Pencil on paper
29.6X22.5 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Emil Eisler, Nisko Camp, 1940
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Hans (Jean) Lenthal, Mauthausen, 1945
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Hans (Jean) Lenthal, Mauthausen, 1945

Art restaurator
Born 1914 in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lived in Paris, from where he was deported to the Drancy Camp. In May 1944, transported to Auschwitz and from there to Sachsenhausen, in the framework of Operation Bernhard to undermine the Allied economies. The counterfeiters were deported in February 1945 to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp and from there to Ebensee, where they were liberated. 
Watercolor on paper
34.8X27.2 cm 

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Hans (Jean) Lenthal, Mauthausen, 1945
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Oskar Fuchs, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Oskar Fuchs, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943

Born in 1889 or 1890. Lived in Prague. Deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in November 1942. In October 1944, sent to the Small Fortress with the order to bury ashes of murdered inmates, from the crematorium. Murdered in the Small Fortress.
Crayon and ink on paper
30X22 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Oskar Fuchs, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Leo Holzer, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Leo Holzer, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943

Engineer. Chief of the Fire Brigade in Theresienstadt.
Born 1902 in Kobersdorf, Austro-Hungarian Empire. In December 1941, deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where he was liberated. After the war lived in Prague, where he died in 1989.
Crayon and ink on paper
30X22 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Leo Holzer, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Captain Josef Klaber, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Captain Josef Klaber, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943

Deputy Chief of the Jewish Security Department  in Theresienstadt.
Born 1885 in Březové Hory, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Deported from Prague to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, in December 1941. Survived.
Crayon and ink on paper
30X22 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Captain Josef Klaber, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man Wearing Glasses, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man Wearing Glasses, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943

Crayon and ink on paper
30X22 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man Wearing Glasses, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man Wearing Glasses, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man Wearing Glasses, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943

Crayon on paper
30X22 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man Wearing Glasses, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943

Crayon and ink on paper
30X22 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Man, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Woman, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1944
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Woman, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1944

Pencil on paper
30X22 cm

Leo Haas (1901-1983), Portrait of a Woman, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1944