Francois Szulman collection

Identifier: irn522876
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of an ink drawing, La Barricade De Belleville, created by Francois Szulman and a 1988 book about the artist.

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Ink line drawing of a barricade defended by Communist resistance fighters by a French Jewish youth
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522877
- English
- overall: Height: 25.500 inches (64.77 cm) | Width: 19.750 inches (50.165 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Ink line drawing created by 13 year old Francois Szulman about 1944 depicting a scene he witnessed in his Parisian neighborhood on the eve of liberation, August 23, 1944. It is an image of an armed group of young men with FTP armbands for the Communist resistance movement firing a machine gun and rifles over a large sandbag barricade. Belleville was a working class suburb with a large Jewish and immigrant population. During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany that began in June 1940, the Germans sought to remove all Jews from Paris. Francois and his mother were arrested in July 1942 du...
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522878
- English
- 1988
- Updated 1 year ago
Book about the work of the artist Francois Szulman published in France in 1988. Francois live with hs mother in the working class arrondisement of Belleville in Paris. Germany invaded France in May 1940, and in June, Fracee capitulated. By 1942, theGermans sought to remove all Jews from Paris. Francois, age 11, and his mother were arrested in July that year during the Vel d'Hiv roundups, but released because his father, a French soldier, was a prisoner of war. They went into hiding, but his mother died in December 1943 because she could not get medical care. Paris was liberated by US troops...

Francois Szulman collection

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Ink line drawing of a barricade defended by Communist resistance fighters by a French Jewish youth

Book