be-002157-kd 00023
type: RecordSet
archival history: Upon returning to Köln (Cologne) after the war, Dagobert Meyer donated a folder containing 18 drawings and paintings to the NS-Dokumentationszentrum (EL-DE-Haus) in Köln (Cologne). As the Jewish supervisor at the Dossin barracks, he had kept these pictures, drawn at the Malerstube (painters workshop) in the Dossin barracks, by inmate artists such as Gyorgy Bekeffi, Irene Spicker-Awret, August (Alexandre) Polak and Kopel Simelovitz. The NS-Dokumentationszentrum (EL-DE-Haus) has lent the drawings to Kazerne Dossin for digitization.
biographical history: Dagobert Meyer was born in Köln (Cologne) in 1901 and was an opera singer. After his arrest in Antwerp on 9 September 1942, he was interned at the Dossin barracks. His marriage to an Aryan woman, Lucia Sophie Müller, saved him from deportation. In February or March 1943, camp commander Schmitt appointed Dagobert Meyer as the Jewish chief supervisor of the Dossin barracks. When he was liberated from the camp on 8 May 1943, the Jewish Council explicitly requested that he would continue his work, to which Dagobert agreed with the consent of commandant Frank. Dagobert Meyer was a very authoritarian figure and was corrupted by his power. After liberation, several former Dossin inmates pressed charges against him, but these charges were eventually dropped. He himself testified in favour of two Flemish collaborators who worked at the Dossin barracks.
location of originals: NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln (EL-DE-Haus, Cologne) - nsdok@stadt-koeln.de - collection number unknown
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Permission for digital storage at Kazerne Dossin granted.
publication note: AWRET Irene, They'll have to catch me first. An artist coming of age in the third reich, Wisconsin, 2004.
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected.
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
conditions of use: NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln (EL-DE-Haus, Cologne)
has beginning date: 1943-01-01
has end date: 1943-12-31
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 673
has record set type: Collection
identifier: KD_00023
record resource extent: 18 digitised images : 18 drawings
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains, in colour and black-and-white, six sketches, one painting and 11 ‘educational’ caricature drawings informing the Jewish staff at the Dossin barracks about daily life and procedures at the camp. This art was created by the Jewish artist inmates of the 'Malerstube' (painters workshop), among whom Gyorgy Bekeffi, Irene Spicker-Awret, August (Alexandre) Polak and Kopel Simelovitz.
title: Series of drawings"Life at the Dossin barrack". Collection