
Pencil on paper
26x13.8 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem


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Pencil on paper
26x13.8 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
"This need to document became an extraordinary force that carried me to survival, just as painting saved my life."
Born and raised in Warsaw, Olomucki attended a Yiddish speaking school. In 1940, she and her family were interned in the Warsaw ghetto, where she drew scenes of daily life; she smuggled her works out of the ghetto to a Polish friend. Olomucki was assigned to a work group outside of the ghetto. In May 1943, she was deported with her mother Margarita to the Majdanek camp, where her mother was murdered. In July 1943, Olomucki was transported to Auschwitz and assigned to forced labor in the Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke ammunition factory. She was compelled to make signs for the barracks, and used the materials to paint. As the Red Army advanced in January 1945, she was evacuated on a death march to the Ravensbrück camp and then to the Neustadt-Glewe camp, where she was liberated on May 2, 1945.
Olomucki returned to Warsaw hoping to be reunited with her family – but no one had survived. After the war, she moved to Lodz, where she married, and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1957, she moved to France and in 1972 immigrated to Israel.
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