us-005578-irn522490-irn523938
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scope and content: Painting by Arie (Aryeh) Singer depicting a group of partisans detonating an explosion in the path of a German train. It is from a series created from 1985-2000 based upon memories and events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile killing units, who with the help of the local populace, murdered thousands of Jews. Arie and his mother were forced into the Jewish ghetto. His father, Zvi, age 38, was killed in the massacres at Ponary in 1941. In spring 1943, Arie and his mother, Chaya, 35, escaped the ghetto, which was being destroyed by the Germans. They went into hiding in the Nievier Forest near Vilna, where they engaged in partisan activities. The area was liberated by the Red Army in July 1944. After some years in a displaced persons camps, Arie and Chaya emigrated to Israel in the late 1940s. Colonel Singer began creating this series of paintings about his Holocaust experiences in the mid 1980s as rehabilitation following a stroke in 1975.
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/2000-12-31
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record resource extent: overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm)
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archival history: The painting was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Arie Singer.
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1943-01-01
identifier: irn523938
has or had holder: us-005578
biographical history: Aryeh (Arie) Singer was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), on September 26, 1930, to Zvi and Chaya Sverdlov Singer. Zvi, born in 1903, earned his living in the lumber business. Chaya was born in 1908. There were multiple Zionist organizations in Vilna and the family belonged to Elzel. Aryeh attended Beit Sefer Ivrit school. Vilna was claimed by Poland following World War I (1914-1918.) After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Vilna, in northeastern Poland, was occupied by Soviet forces per the German-Soviet pact which divided Poland between the two powers. Aryeh, 13, and his extended family fled to Glembokie (Glebokie), (later (Hlybokaye, Belarus), thinking it would be safer. But it also became Soviet territory and Jewish organizations and practices were abolished. On June 22, 1941, Germany attacked Soviet forces in the east and occupied the region. The German invasion was accompanied by German led killing squads, which, assisted by local Lithuanians auxiliaries, murdered thousands of Jews and Polish nationals. Aryeh and his mother Chaya were confined to the Jewish ghetto in Gle`mbokie. His father Zvi was one of the more than 5000 Jewish men shot during the massacres in the Ponary Forest in summer 1941. In the ghetto, Aryeh and his mother lived in a small apartment and had no food most of the time. There were frequent pogroms to kill more Jews. In spring 1943, Aryeh and his mother escaped the ghetto, with the help of a partisan named Fifi. They went into hiding in the Nievier Forest near Vilna and engaged in partisan activities. Aryeh’s paternal cousin, Edith Turner, and her family also escaped and lived with the partisans. During the liquidation of the Glembokie ghetto in July-August 1943, the residents rose up against the Nazi occupation forces. The ghetto was burned and the residents were slaughtered. The region where Aryeh and his mother were living in hiding with the partisans was liberated in July 1944 by Soviet forces. Aryeh and his mot…
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has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1985-01-01
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Multi-colored, mixed media work on paper. In the foreground is a group of 3 men in heavy coats, the men to the left, one in white and one in green, hold rifles. The man in the gray coat, on the right, near a sparsely leaved tree, plunges the handle on a box with several long black lines running vertically across a white field to an explosion between a train engine and railcars crossing the background of the image. back, inside two circles, pencil : 119 / 110 / 49
title: Watercolor of partisans setting off an explosion to stop a swastika marked train
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1944-12-31