Drawing in red chalk on paper with a perforated top edge depicting a 1 story building with a chimney and fence on the left and tall trees on the right. In front of the building is a fence with short fence posts. The drawing is in a windowpane mat with a piece of paper on the back. mat, back, on paper, black ink : ovčin/rudka/23 ubikace vedoucího ovčína, K. Krause [sheepfold, vermilion, Sheepfold Headquarters, by K. Krause] mat, back, top left corner, colored pencil : 12 mat, back, top, cursive, pencil : U ovčína (ubikace vedoucího ovčína, krásného mladého človĕka, Karla Krause, který zůstal take v Osvěčímí / jako milioný jiných.) Near the sheepfold (Sheepfold headquarters, a handsome young man, Karl Krause, also remained at Osvecimi, like millions of others.)
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The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Mark Talisman.
overall: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 17.625 inches (44.768 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
Drawing created at Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The camp opened in November 24, 1941 and was in operation about 3.5 years, until May 2, 1945. The German SS imprisoned certain categories of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews in the ghetto, including many prominent intellectual or cultural figures. There was a large Technical Department where many artists were assigned to work, creating technical drawings, maps, etc. for the camp administration. Many of them secretly created works documenting the actual overcrowded, disease ridden conditions of the camp. The works were buried or hidden behind walls and recovered postwar. Roughly 140,000 Jews were sent to Theresienstadt; nearly 90,000 were sent to camps in the east where most died, and about 33,000 perished in Theresienstadt.
Sheepfold Headquarters, Theresienstadt Red chalk drawing of a small house amongst trees