
Pencil on paper
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
Acquisition through Hana Greenfield


Courtesy of Terezin Memorial Photo Archive

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Pencil on paper
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
Acquisition through Hana Greenfield
Courtesy of Terezin Memorial Photo Archive
Born in Brno, Moravia. Ungar Studied painting at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. In January 1932, he married Elfriede née Zwicker. Their daughter Zuzana was born in 1933. He taught painting and mathematics in Jewish high schools in Brno until 1940. In January 1942, he was transported to the Terezin ghetto together with his wife and daughter. There, he worked in the Technical Department along with other artists, producing propaganda for the Germans. Clandestinely, they depicted the reality of life in the ghetto. Following the Red Cross visit to Terezin in June 1944, the painters were accused of smuggling anti-Nazi materials out of the ghetto. Ungar was incarcerated in the Small Fortress along with the other artists. He was tortured and his right hand was crushed. He was deported to Auschwitz, then evacuated to Buchenwald on a death march. He was liberated in April 1945, but passed away three months later. In 1946, his widow, who survived with their daughter, established a committee to locate his works that had been hidden in the ghetto. In accordance with a decision of the Czech Republic’s Ministry for the Protection of the Homeland, 54 artworks were returned to her.
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