Portrait of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

It is a bust-length, with three-quarter view. The portrait is of the highest technical quality aswell as a good chatacter study.

Visionary Portrait.

The expressionist head of a young man emerges from the dark shadows. His face is a long oval, with full lips and strongly flared nostrils, framed by black hair and small black beard.

Study of the Prophet Ezekiel.

Signed and titled lower center, with a dedication to the LeoBaeck Institute, dated 1961.

Bombed out Houses of London. (WorldWar II)

Mrs. Schames, 1967

The Gate, Internment camp at Huyton, near Liverpool.

Signed and dated lower right. See also 78.1689

To the Mothers of the Twelve Thousand.

The size of the work and the printed title suggests, that this is a poster. It bears the emblem R.J.F., for the sponsoring organization, Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten or National Organization of the Jewish Front-line Soldiers. The mothers of "The twelve thousand" refers to the Jewish soldiers killed during World War I, when reminding Germans of the patriotism and sacrifices of German Jews, seemed important in view of the discrimination they were confronted with at the time, in 1935.

Dancer Casablanca 1930

A seated figure dressed in pink against a background of vegetation. Titled in lower left corner.

Portrait of Bernhard Wolffenstein (1803-1848)

The sitter was Dr.Ernst Hamburgers (of the L.B.I.Executive Commitee) great grandfather, a master dyer in Berlin by profession. He is shown almost frontally, smiling, dressed up in a suit and fancy shirt.

Terezin Theresienstadt.

Figure of a dejected man sitting on a small stool next to his suitcase. Titled, signed and dated in ink.

Kindertransport, Terezin (Theresienstadt)

A view of seven children, facing the viewer.

Terezin: Barrack "Dresden" compound, barracks women's activities.

Initialed and dated lower right. Inscription attached paper: "Court of Dresden barracks for ladies only"

Terezin, The Deportation Train.

Signed and dated lower right.

Terezin: Portrait of Jirina Kanova. (Prague 1938-Auschwitz 1944).

The child is shown in threequarter view, looking into the distance. Her dark head is silhoutted against the background and accented by a whitecolored blouse. Signed L. Buresova, Terezin 15.IX.1943

GURS:'Stamps' from the Concentration Camp, a-l.

The design of each are drawn in the miniature style of postage stamps and include mock postage prices. Presumably the method was inspired by the shortage of paper in the camp.GURS in Southern France, where these works were done, but the format is also used to stress the Irony of the content, especially in the Trio of designs marked "Liberte-Egalite-Fraternite. Aside from one marked "Avion de Gurs", all other are simply labelled "GURS" at the bottom, as is this were the country of origin of a postal system.

GURS: "Stamps" from the concentrationcamp, m-p.

The designs are drawn in the miniature style of postage stamps and include mock postage prices. Presumably this method was inspired by the shortage of paper at the camp in Gurs, Southern France, where these works were done; but specially this format is also used to stress the irony of the content, especially in the trio of design marked "Liberte-Egalite-Fraternite", aside from one marked "Avion de Gurs", all others are labelled simply " Gurs ", at the bottom as if this were the country of origin of a postal system.