Aat Breur

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Aat Breur , also Aat Breur-Hibma (born December 28, 1913 in The Hague ; † December 31, 2002 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch illustrator and resistance fighter against National Socialism , who was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Aat Breuer learned to draw in the family from her father. She studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague from 1934 to 1939 and then worked as an art teacher. In 1940 she married Krijn Breur and they had two children. Together with her husband, she joined a resistance group and helped, among other things, with the acquisition of forged papers and with espionage and sabotage. On November 19, 1942, she and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo , their daughter Dunya was also arrested. Krijn Breur was sentenced to death and executed in February 1943.

Aat Breur was first moved to Utrecht with her child, then deported to Ravensbrück without her daughter. There she was initially assigned to a work detachment for road construction, one of the harshest forms of forced labor . She was later assigned to the bookbinding workshop in the camp because of her skills as a draftsman. There she had freedom in comparison with other inmates and could also draw for her own purposes. The resulting portraits of fellow inmates and other drawings were saved after the liberation of the concentration camp and later together with their life stories in the book I live because you remember! released. Aat Breur survived pneumonia in the camp and was seriously ill with tuberculosis when he was liberated . After 1945 she spent the following eight years mainly in hospitals and sanatoriums. In 1998, in an interview for a documentary film by Loretta Walz , she made her first public statement about her time in Ravensbrück.

Exhibitions

  • In 1982 the drawings from the concentration camp were exhibited for the first time in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , where they can still be seen today.
  • 1998 Exhibition on the grounds of the Ravensbrück concentration camp

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aat Breur. (No longer available online.) The Ravensbrück project, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 (PDF). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.justitia-ausstellung.de
  2. ↑ Aat Breur. Confrontation Working Group, accessed on January 6, 2015 .
  3. ^ Rochelle G. Saidel: The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück . TerraceBooks, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-299-19864-0 , pp. 57-58 .
  4. ↑ mh: Obituary: Aat Breur. Ravensbrück Blätter, March 2003, accessed January 6, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Breur, Aat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breur-Hibma, Aat; Hibma, Adri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch illustrator and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2002
Place of death Amsterdam