Yad Vashem Private Tolkatchev at the Gates of Hell
Majdanek and Auschwitz Liberated: Testimony of an Artist

“I did what I had to do; I couldn’t refrain from doing it. My heart commanded, my conscience demanded, the hatred for fascism reigned.” In these words, artist Private Zinovii Tolkatchev embodies the creative essence of one who arrived at the gates of hell in Red Army uniform.

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  • Zinovii Tolkatchev Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev Taleskoten, 1944

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev The Liberation, 1945

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev A Mother and Her Baby, 1945

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev Winter, 1944

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev One of the Nameless, 1944

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev Stigmatized Man, 1944

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev Daybreak, 1945

  • Zinovii Tolkatchev Prisoners' Bunks, 1945

  • The Liberators Have Arrived

    Zinovii Tolkatchev The Liberators Have Arrived

  • The Savior

    Zinovii Tolkatchev The Savior

  • The Burial Day of the Victims

    Zinovii Tolkatchev The Burial Day of the Victims

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