us-005578-irn42320-irn42934
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: Ink wash drawing and a pencil underdrawing on white rectangular paper depicting a man sitting in a large clawfoot bathtub under a running, metal shower pipe holding a sponge. A fringed rug hangs over the side and there is a wooden floor grate. A light fixture hangs from a chain above; his clothes and hat hang from a wall mounted rack on the right. In the left background is a wooden bench against a square tile wall. There is a paragraph length artist’s caption in Hebrew, dates, and the artist’s name inscribed on the front and there is a number covered with correction fluid. There are 2 punched holes at the top center of the paper. front, lower left, handwritten, black ink : Hebrew text [As soon as I went out into the street, I turned to the closest bathhouse. Two hours of “Nirvana” in hot water with soap foam. I came out a new person.] / Warsaw August 45 front, lower right : Hebrew letter [104] covered in correction fluid
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record resource extent: overall: Height: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
archival history: The autobiographical drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Peretz Chorshati.
scope and content: Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel taking a bath in August 1945, when he visited a bathhouse in Warsaw for his first bath in nearly a year after the war. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deserted the German army and joined the Bielski partisan group. After the war ended on May 7, 1945, Pavel returned to Warsaw and joined Beitar, a right wing Zionist group. In June 1946, he illegally emigrated to British ruled Palestine.
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identifier: irn42934
title: Autobiographical ink drawing of a man sitting in a bathtub under a running shower
date: 1945 August
has or had holder: us-005578
biographical history: Pavel Szenwald was born on December 28, 1920, in Warsaw, Poland. He was a student at the Technical College in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. A few months later, he was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto and in March 1941 was transported to the Nedev labor camp; he escaped and returned to the ghetto. In 1942, Pavel used forged Polish papers obtained by his father and escaped the ghetto. He posed as a German national, joined the German army, and served as a guard at a prisoner of war camp for Soviet prisoners. Believing his identity was about to be revealed, he fled his post in March 1943 and traveled over 600 miles to the Lida ghetto in Poland (Belarus). He escaped in April to the forest in Belarus and joined the Bielski partisans as a machine gunner and saboteur. In December, the group established a permanent base in the Naliboki forest which was under the administration of a Soviet partisan group led by General Chernyshev. The Bielski group established a relationship with the Soviet partisans who provided them with weapons. In July 1944, the camp was liberated by the Soviet Army; Pavel and his battalion fought alongside the Soviets. After the war in Europe ended on May 7, 1945, Pavel was drafted into the Soviet Army. Pavel returned to Warsaw in August 1945. He stayed at an army barracks and searched the ghetto ruins for surviving relatives but found none. Not wanting to return to his Russian army unit, Pavel decided to go to Palestine. In October 1945, he joined Beitar, a right wing Zionist group which was involved in illegal immigration and military activities. He gave up his papers, uniform, and weapons in exchange for ragged clothing and forged papers declaring him a Greek refugee. In November 1945, he crossed the border into Czechoslovakia with other Poles. They stayed in a safe house in Prague and were forbidden to leave, but Pavel heard that he could get cakes in town and left. He stopped to ask directions and was arrested. His iden…