us-005578-irn35831
type: RecordSet
archival history: Musée de la Résistance Nationale à Champigny
biographical history: Boris Taslitzky was born in Paris, France, on September 30, 1911, to Russian Jewish refugees. His father was an engineering student who fled Ekaterinaslav due to his activities during the 1905 revolution. His mother left when she was fourteen because she took part in a demonstration in 1905. She worked as an apprentice furrier and met Boris's father soon after her arrival. Due to a clerical error, Boris was baptized as Catholic. When he was four years old, his father was killed in combat in World War I (1914-1918). His mother worked as a seamstress to support them. She later remarried a mathematician. When he was four years old, his father was killed in combat in World War I. At the age of 17, he began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and studied with sculptor Jacques Lipschitz and tapestry designer Jean Lurcat. He left school to take a job at the Maison de la Culture. In 1933, he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writer and Artists and two years later, became a member of the Communist Party. In 1936, he created paintings to promote support for the left-wing Popular Front in the elections. The next year, he provided the illustrations for the first edition of the French Communist Party newspaper, Ce Soir, Taslitzky had competed his mandatory military service in 1931. But in August 1939, he was remobilized and assigned to the 101st Infantry Battalion at Meaux. Germany invaded France in May 1940. Boris was captured by the Germans at Gondreville in June 1940. He escaped during transfer to Melun and joined the Resistance, but was recaptured in November 1941. He was sentenced to two years in prison by a military tribunal for creating drawings for use in Communist propaganda. He spent seventeen months in a civilian jail in Royan, then was transferred to the French military prison in Bauzac (sp?), then St. Sulpice-la-Pointe near Toulouse. While there, he painted frescoes on the walls of seven cells, as well as the chapel. His mother was arrested during the Vel …
has beginning date: 1940-01-01
has end date: 1944-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: fra
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn35831
record resource extent: 554 digital images, JPEG 1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm 2 pages of photocopies, color
record resource structure: Arrangement is thematic.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The collection consists of reproductions of a series of sketches and other artwork by Communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky after he was deported to Buchenwald, and a photo album of a 1942 Paris exhibit on “Bolshevism against Europe.”.
title: Artwork by communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky plus catalogue of Vichy exhibition on"Bolshevis"