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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1987 2(1):123-147; doi:10.1093/hgs/2.1.123
© 1987 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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THE COMPLEXITIES OF WITNESSING*

ZIVA AMISHAI-MAISELS

Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel

Drawings of the camps done by inmates are not only witness reports. They involve choices of style and content and the influence of earlier artworks. A comparison of the ways inmates treated similar subjects reveals differences in approach between photographs and drawings, art in the camps and post-liberation art, the treatment of daily life versus that of death, and the depiction of the façade of reality as opposed to the truth behind it. The need to reveal the truth differentiates the Expressionistic works of some artists at Theresienstadt from those of other camps and raises new problems about inmate art.

*This article is part of a larger work on the reaction of artists to the Holocaust, Depiction and Interpretation: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts (forthcoming).


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