Holocaust. Zaglady Ghetta w Krakowie (13.III.1943-13.III.1946), ed. M. Borwicz, illustr., Woodcuts of Jonasz Stern, 1st ed., 1946, in Polish
W 3-cia rocznice
(On the 3rd anniversary of the destruction of the Krakow ghetto)
Editors: Michal M. Borwicz, Nella Rost, Josef Wulf
Centralny Komitet Zydów Polskich, Krakow, 1946. 198 pages.
Woodcuts of Jonasz Stern, Holocaust survivor.
Illustrated by photos, drawings, maps and tables. Orig wood cuts of Jonas Stern
Drawings by well-known Jewish artist –Abba Fenichel (1906 - 1986), Zinoviy Shenderovich Tolkachev (February 12 (25), 1903, Shchedrin, Minsk province - August 30, 1977, Kyiv) - Soviet Ukrainian artist and others
Original Publisher's Paper Wrappers, 22 x 15 cm.
Condition: Light brown paper, some foxing stain.
Weight: 245 gr.
Jonasz Stern (born August 4, 1904 in Ka?usz, died August 2, 1988 in Zakopane) - Polish painter, graphic artist and teacher of Jewish origin, member of the communist party.
He was born into a Jewish family. He was educated at the Industrial School in Lviv and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he lived from 1928. He combined his studies with paid work at the T?cza factory and the printing house.
In 1933, together with other artists, he founded the artistic association Grupa Krakowska. As a set designer, he collaborated with the Cricot Theatre. He was also a political activist. Parties to which he belonged: Communist Party of Western Ukraine, PPS-Left, KZMP, MOPR, KPP and PZPR.
In 1936 he participated in the Congress of Cultural Workers in Lviv. For his left-wing beliefs, he was removed from the Union of Polish Artists and Designers, and in 1937 he was imprisoned in a camp in Bereza Kartuska. The outbreak of World War II found him in Lviv, where in 1941 the city was occupied by the Nazis and placed in a ghetto. From the ghetto he was sent to the death camp in Be??ec, but he managed to escape during the transport and return to Lviv. On June 1, 1943, he miraculously survived the liquidation of the ghetto, got out from under the bodies of the shot dead and escaped to Hungary to Budapest, where he was hiding in the Csillaghegy district thanks to the help of the gendarmerie commander named Endre Laszlo. He returned to Krakow in 1945. In the years 1954-1974 he worked as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He participated in the organization of of the Second Krakow Group and was its president for many years