2024-03-28T14:14:41Z
https://keydocuments.net/oai
oai:jgo:source-170.en
2018-09-21T00:00:00Z
en
Ágnes Lukács, Sheet “ Összebújva” (Close together), in: id. „Auschwitz Nöi Tábor“ (The Auschwitz Women’s Camp). 24 lithographs, ed. by the Socialist-Zionist Party Ichud / Bela Denes, Budapest 1946.
https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-170.en.v1
Ágnes Lukács
Institute for the History of the German Jews
Online Ressource
The 1946 portfolio of lithographs by Hungarian-Jewish artist Ágnes
Lukács titled “Auschwitz Nöi Tábor” (The Auschwitz Women's
Camp) includes an image of a group of women standing closely together,
holding each other as if to warm or comfort one another. Those at the
outside of the group try to get as close as possible to the others.
The title, “Összebújva” (Close Together), listed on a sheet
enclosed in the edition, further reinforces the drawing's message. The
drawing is part of a series of 24 lithographs. In this series Lukács
repeatedly makes use of the group motif and of specific details in
order to intensify her visual narratives of forced labor, selection,
hunger, violence, and death. Both her preliminary sketches made in the
fall of 1945 and the stones she used to draw on are lost.
Although Lukács included this drawing in her series of images from
Auschwitz, reproductions of it are often used to visualize the history
of female prisoners in the satellite camps of the Neuengamme
concentration camp near Hamburg. For both educators and visitors at
the Neuengamme memorial, this image serves as a source for talking and
learning about the conditions of imprisonment and survival experienced
by female camp inmates, but it also addresses questions of solidarity
and friendship under violent conditions.
2018-09-21