Halina Olomucki (1921-2007) - Di Drey Shvester [the Three Sisters]

- Oil on canvas.- Olomucki's father died when she was a child. He grew up in Warsaw and received a Jewish, though non-religious, education in a Yiddish-speaking school. With the German occupation in 1939, Olomucki and her family were deported to the Warsaw ghetto. She was recruited to perform forced labor outside the ghetto walls. In May 1943, Olomucki and her mother, Margarita, were taken to Majdanek, where her mother was murdered. In May 1943, Olomucki was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, she was forced to work in the Union Munitions Factory (Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke). She was assigned to paint the panels for the barracks. With the arrival of the Red Army in January 1945, she was evacuated on a death march to Ravensbrück, and from there to Neustadt-Glewe, where she was liberated on May 2, 1945. She returned to Warsaw in the hope of finding surviving relatives, but in vain. She settled in Łódź, where she married, and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1951. She was a student of the artist Władysław Strzemiński. In 1957, he moved to France and in 1972, he emigrated to Israel, where he settled in Holon. Olomucki depicted daily life in the Warsaw ghetto. After being transferred to the concentration camps, she continued to draw, using materials obtained during her forced labor. In Warsaw, after the war, he found his drawings, which he had managed to smuggle out of the ghetto and give to a Polish friend, who saved them. He also managed to find some of the drawings he had hidden at Birkenau. The Yad Vashem International Center houses 36 portraits of Halina Olomucki in its collection. - Dimensions of the image without frame: 65 x 50 cm / 83 x 67 cm with elegant frame. - Galerie Montbaron includes with all its lots a technical sheet prepared by a qualified art historian. This form is sent in digital format and upon request.