The Holocaust Through

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The Holocaust Through

• Art and Pictures

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The Artwork of David Olere

• David Olère was born in Warsaw, Poland, on
  January 19, 1902.From March 2, 1943, to January
  19, 1945.
• David Olère was interned at Auschwitz.The horrors
  he witnessed there are incomprehensible to anyone
  who did not personally experience the Holocaust.
• No photographs were taken at Auschwitz of what
  went on in the gas chambers and crematoria. Only
  the memories of Olère, reproduced as art in his
  drawings and paintings, give an account of the
  horrible reality.

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He saw the victims of the gas chamber undress in
the cloakroom, paralyzed with fear and the
knowledge of certain death. He saw the
incineration of countless bodies. He saw the
so-called medical experiments performed on the
weak and the sick and the old. He saw the SS rape
and torture young Jewish girls. He saw prisoners
suffer terrible cruelties while living under the
most deplorable of conditions. And on a regular
basis, he saw disease, despair, and death. David
Olère was one of the few laborers to penetrate
the dark interiors of the crematoria and the gas
chambers of Auschwitz and to emerge alive.
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An aerial reconnaissance photograph of the
Auschwitz concentration camp showing the
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) camp. (September 13,
1944)
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A large pile of prayer shawls (tallesim,
tallitot), that were confiscated from arriving
prisoners, are stored in one of the warehouses in
Auschwitz. (After January 27, 1945)
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Photograph taken immediately after the departure
of the Germans from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sacks of
human hair packed for dispatch to Germany. The
women had their hair cut prior to gassing. In
Auschwitz warehouses 7,000 kilos of human hair
was found at liberation. (January 1945)
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Bales of the hair of female prisoners found in
the warehouses of Auschwitz at the liberation.
(After January 1945)
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