Roll Call - Belsen, 1944 | Imperial War Museums

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Description

Object description

Acrylic painting in purple, gold, and turquoise colours

Label

Edith Birkin 1927–2018 Edith Birkin was an expressionist artist, teacher and writer born into a Jewish family in Prague. She was a survivor of the Holocaust. Birkin began painting in the 1970s after settling in London. At first, her colourful works depicted ‘just ordinary things’ but she soon began a series of works focussed on her memories of the Holocaust. Birkin’s works draw on the ‘loneliness or isolation experienced by so many’ in the concentration camps and afterwards. Following liberation and her return to Prague, Birkin checked ‘lists of people … every day hoping somebody would come back … I was alone in the world … I was seventeen.’

Object Details

Category

Art

Creator

Birkin, Edith (Artist)

Production date

1990

Place made

Great Britain, United Kingdom

Materials

Support: board

medium: acrylic

Dimensions

Support: Height 890 mm., Width 1142 mm.

Frame: Depth 21 mm., Height 940 mm., Width 1200 mm.

Catalogue number

Art.IWM ART 17440

Object associations

Associated places

Germany (pre 1945 and post 1990) DE
Bergen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany
Associated keywords

Anti-Semitism
civilian suffering
artist's response
concentration camps
Holocaust
Prisoners

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