FROM THE COLLECTION
A letter from Meyer Salomon Susan in Westerbork Camp, Barrack 72 to Mr. M. Polack in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dated 31 December 1943.
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They Shall Be Counted
Order your own copy of They Shall Be Counted on Amazon today! The book features the Theresienstadt Ghetto Art Of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly, which are featured in our Temporary Exhibit area in the Museum.
CLICK HERE TO ORDER!Butterfly Exhibition
Come and visit our Butterfly Exhibition in the Children’s Memorial. Eighth grade students from Pressman Academy created butterflies in memory of the 1.2 million children who perished in the Holocaust. They were inspired by the poem, “The Butterfly,” written by Pavell Friedmann in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
The Difference of a Single Day
Photos and artifacts detail Katy Haber’s quest to resolve the mystery of her relatives’ fate and the amazing discovery she made across continents and years.
Exhibit Opening: Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:30pm Join Ambassador of the Czech Republic, Petr Gandalovič, and Katy Haber to premiere this exhibit.
Liberators But Not Equals: African American Soldiers and the End of the Holocaust
As a tribute to Black History month, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust presents LIBERATORS BUT NOT EQUALS: AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST. Visitors can explore the newly designed text panels documenting the story of African American troops at the end of the Holocaust. The exhibit also includes the display of U.S. military artifacts depicting aspects of military service in World War II and highlights relevant photographs and audio guide prompts from the Museum’s permanent exhibition
Erich Lichtblau-Leskly Collection
The Museum’s Erich Lichtblau-Leskly Theresienstadt Collection of original paintings or ghetto-picture diaries is the largest collection of this artist’s work. Through their technical excellence, the works reveal defiance, humor, satire, and indifference to the madness of the world run by the Nazi regime. Theresienstadt (Terezin), besides being a main incarceration center for the Central European Jews, also served as a place used to deceive the world that the Jews of Europe were alive and being treated well. The Nazi regime used it as a stage for filming propaganda and a tourist stop for international commissions. The Lichtblau-Leskly works capture the complications and ironies of Theresienstadt. They universally depict the fundamental desperation lurking in every moment of life in the show ghetto.
Erich Lichtblau-Leskly's artworks significantly differ from a ‘typical’ Holocaust graphic. Instead of a barbed wire, striped uniform, and death scenes, we see ghetto life through the prism of everyday errands and chores, depicted in grotesques and caricatures. Erich Lichtblau-Leskly convincingly challenges the Nazi anti-Jewish concepts by depicting and interpreting the ghetto life in a style he would use for a ‘normal’ commercial advertisement in his prewar practice. In the spring of 1945, Erich Lichtblau-Leskly cut most of his pictures into pieces to protect himself and his wife. Fortunately, his wife hid these fragments, rescuing them for posterity. Our Collection includes these fragments as well as re-created watercolors done by the artist in Israel during the 1950s throughout the 1960s when he changed his name to Eli Leskly.
This exhibit is currently on display.
