David Olère
David Olère (born January 19, 1902 in Warsaw , † August 21, 1985 in Paris ) was a Jewish painter of Polish descent. His work is dedicated to the Holocaust .
Life
David Olère received his artistic training early on. At sixteen he exhibited woodcuts in museums and galleries in Gdansk and Berlin; He left Poland at the age of 19 and began his career in the film industry with the European Film Alliance as a designer, painter and decorator. In 1923 he came to Paris and worked for the Paramount film company, among others . In 1930 he married Juliette Ventura, a French woman, and in 1937 he moved to Noisy-le-Grand .
After the war broke out, he was drafted into the 134th Infantry Regiment and fought at Lons-le-Saunier in 1940 . On February 20, 1943, he was arrested by the French police and initially held in the Drancy assembly camp.
On March 2, 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz II . There he was assigned to the so-called Sonderkommando , whose task it was to remove the corpses from the gas chambers and the remains of the ashes from the ovens. Because of his artistic talent, he was given the opportunity to decorate the letters of the SS members . a. Food.
In January 1945 he left Auschwitz on a death march . After stops in Buchenwald and Melk , he was liberated by the Americans in Ebensee in May 1945 .
He processed the experiences in his pictures. Since there are only three photos of the cremation pits of the activity of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, his paintings and drawings are considered to be important contemporary testimonies and evidence.
At the beginning of 2020, the German Bundestag will host the David Olère exhibition . Survivor of the crematorium III .
The Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg dedicated David Olère and his life a Webdoku under the ARD -Projektseite Auschwitz and I .
literature
- Serge Klarsfeld , David Olère: David Olere, 1902–1985. A painter in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz (= L'Oeil du Témoin / The Eyes of a Witness ). The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1989, OCLC 970991956 (French, English).
- David Olère, Alexandre Oler: Witness: Images of Auschwitz. West Wind Press, N. Richard Hills, TX 1998, ISBN 0-941037-69-X (English).
- Alexandre Olèr, David Olère: Forgotten or forgiven. Images from the death zone. Translated from the French by Marianne Schönbach. zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2004, ISBN 3-93492045-4 (Original title: Un génocide en héritage ).
- Jadwiga Pinderska-Lech, Gabriela Nikliborc (eds.), Agnieszka Sieradzka (texts): David Olère. Ten, który ocalał z Krematorioum III. The One Who Survived Crematorium III. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim 2018, ISBN 978-83-7704-265-6 (Polish, English).
Web links
- David Olère. Biography. In: fcit.usf.edu. A teacher's guide to the holocaust
- L'art, les ghettos, la déportation et les camps. David Olère, artist et témoin de l'extermination à Auschwitz. (No longer available online.) In: wanadoo.fr. 2001, archived from the original on June 15, 2019 (French, pictures by David Olère).
- International Symposium: a lecture about David Olere by Veronique Chevillon. Auschwitz Foundation in Brussels, May 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Olère. Survivor of the crematorium III. An exhibition in the German Bundestag on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism . January 30 to February 21, 2020. In: bundestag.de, accessed on January 22, 2020.
- ↑ Auschwitz and I. The art and the memory. In: ard.de, accessed on February 10, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olère, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish painter of Polish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1985 |
| Place of death | Paris |