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Synopsis
An essential element of Holocaust history, Olere's drawings will now be available to everyone in Images of Auschwitz. The text for the book has been carefully recreated by Olere's son based on his father's memoirs.
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From the Publisher
"essential to understanding the Holocaust" —Elie Wiesel
"Stunning!" —Trevor Witcher, Gazelle Books
"I am speechless!" —Pnina Rosenberg, Curator, Ghetto Fighters’ House
"The read is as compelling and memorable as the book’s illustrations." —Independent Publisher
About the Author
Alexandre Oler was born in Paris in 1930. He experienced the persecution of Jews and himself was forced to wear the yellow star of David as a schoolboy. When his father was arrested, he went into hiding, assisted by the Jewish underground. His mother also went into hiding. The family was reunited after the war and Alexandre resumed his education, which had been interrupted at the age of ten. He went on to establish a successful career in business and finance. After his father’s death in 1985, Alexandre donated his father’s drawings and sculptures to various museums and reluctantly became a noted lecturer on the Holocaust. He has a son, Marc Abraham, by his first wife. Alexandre and his second wife, Alice, live today in Nice, on the Riviera.
Biography Of David Olère
1902 Born in Warsaw on January 19.
1918 Already a trained artist, he left Poland for Danzig and Berlin, where he exhibited woodcuts on the Kantstrasse.
1921 Employed by the Europäische Film Allianz in Berlin as a painter, sculptor, and assistant architect.
1923 Moved to Paris, where he designed sets, costumes, and publicity posters for films, in particular for Paramount Pictures.
1930 Married Juliette Ventura. They had a son, Alexandre.
1937 Moved to Noisy le Grand.
1943 Arrested by the French police on February 20 and interned in Drancy transit camp. Deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on March 2 in transport number 49, with some one thousand other Jews. Worked as a trench digger, then as a Sonderkommando of Krematorium III, emptying the gas chambers and burning corpses in the ovens.
1945 Sent on death march to Mauthausen on January 19. From therel was transferred to the Melk camp on the Danuben Liberated from Ebensee camp in Austria by the U.S. Army on May 6. Immediately began his sketches of the horrors he had witnessed.
1985 Died in Paris on August 21. Although he was 83, he died not from disease, but from despair at hearing university "intellectuals" say that the genocide which he personally witnessed did not exist and was mere Zionist propaganda.
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- PublisherThe Summit Publishing Group
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1565302893
- ISBN 13 9781565302891
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages112
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