Portrait of a child survivor drawn postwar by a former Polish slave laborer
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The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Rachel Postawski, the cousin of Henryk Hechtkopf.
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Portrait of a child survivor drawn postwar by a former Polish slave laborer
overall: Height: 17.250 inches (43.815 cm) | Width: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm)
Ink portrait drawing of a child created by Henryk Hechtkopf after his return to Warsaw, Poland, in 1946. In September 1939, Poland was invaded and partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Henryk, a lawyer, was placed in Soviet captivity and sent to a slave labor camp. He survived imprisonment due to his drawing talent.
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Portrait of child who was a Holocaust survivor.