Józef Szajna
Józef Szajna (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuzɛf ˈʂajna]; 13 March 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland – 24 June 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.[1]
During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.[2]
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Archives and art collection at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.
- Bodek, Andrzej, ed. Reminiszenzen: ein Environment von Prof. Jósef Szajna: zum 50. Jahrestag der Befreiung von Auschwitz-Birkenau. Frankfurt am Main, 1995.
- Archives and art collection at the Buchenwald Memorial Museum, Weimar.
- Madeyski, Jerzy and Andrzej Zurowski. Józef Szajna: plastyka, teatr. Warsaw, 1992.
- Milton, Sybil and Janet Blatter. Art of the Holocaust. New York, 1981.
- Sybil Milton interviews and conversations with Józef Szajna at Warsaw 1980 and 1995,
- Auschwitz 1988, and Venice 1990.
- Oleksy, Krystyna, ed. Swiat Józefa Szajny. Oświęcim, 1995.
- Józef Szajna: Appell: Geschichtszeichen und Kunstwerk in der Dauerausstellung zur
- Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Buchenwald. Weimar, 1995.
- Szajna, Józef. "Replika - Erinnerungen: Künstleriche Protest-Aktion gegen den Terror," and "Gespräch zwischen Detlef Hoffmann und Józef Szajna," in Detlef Hoffmann and Karl Ermert, eds. Kunst und Holocaust: Loccumer Protokolle, No. 14 (1990), 74–99.
External links
[edit]- Information and pictures regarding the Józef Szajna's stay in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps during WWII
- Video interview with Józef Szajna Windows Media Version
- Józef Szajna at culture.pl
- Biography of Józef Szajna at Polish Culture NYC
- Józef Szajna's contribution to the webpages of a "Why Auschwitz? Why Kolyma? Why Kosovo?" competition organised by Znak, a Polish Christian Culture Foundation
- Article occasioned by a December 2002 exhibition Jozef Szajna - Theater
- Articles about Józef Szajna - Teatr im. Siemaszkowej in Rzeszów
- Art and Auschwitz - Józef Szajna's "The Roll Call Lasted Very Long ... My Feet Hurt Very Much", ca. 1944-45 ca. 1944-45 (in Spanish)
Works
References
[edit]- ^ Proko, Barbara; Stickles, Janice Baniukiewicz (2007). Worcester County's Polish Community. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5454-9.
- ^ "Oral history interview with Jozef Szajna - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
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