Bridge over the Sudetenland Drawing of a bridge crossing over a shaded road
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)
No restrictions on use
No restrictions on access
Drawing in pencil on paper depicting a shaded road going under a stone bridge in the background. On the right is a sunlit, hill with tall trees on top. On the left is a high wall with foliage that hangs over the bridge. back, cursive, pencil : 11/9 44 (D~lň) / Jh mat, back, on paper, black ink : 43. Šance / Můstek za Sudety / /tužka/ 26 [Chance, Bridge over the Sudetenland, pencil] mat, back, bottom right corner, colored pencil : 43 44 mat, back, bottom right corner, pencil : KLÁ
Drawing of a bridge over a road drawn by Anna Kampusova while imprisoned at Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943-1944 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.