In June 1944, Bacon saw his father murdered in the gas chambers. At this time, his mother and his sister Hanna were deported to the Stutthof concentration camp, where they died a few weeks before its liberation. On January 18, 1945, Bacon was sent on the camp's death march, which lasted three days and led him through the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp to its subcamp Gunskirchen. In March, Bacon was sent on another death march to a subcamp of Mauthausen, Gunskirchen, in the woods. As he reports, there was no food, water or clothing. On May 5, 1945, Bacon was liberated by the US Army. Before the SS guards left the camp, they poisoned the rest of the food. After fleeing to a village, many inmates died from eating too much too suddenly, in amounts their bodies could no longer handle. Bacon and his friend Wolfie Adler (who later became an Israeli rabbi and published a book about his experiences) left the camp. US soldiers brought them to a hospital in the Austrian town Steyr.
After his recovery, Bacon returned to Prague hoping to reunite with his mother and sisters. He lived in an orphanage not far from Prague in Štiřín, which was established by the Czech educator and humanist Přemysl Pitter. The writer H.G. Adler was also a teacher there. Through Pitter and Adler, he found a way to live after the liberation.
Yehuda Bacon lives with his wife Leah Bacon in Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem. He has two sons and a daughter by a former marriage to Josephine Bacon.
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Reproduction of Bacon painting, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
After liberation, Bacon decided to become an artist to process his experiences and try to describe what he lived through.[2] As a survivor he feels a responsibility to tell his story and to make future generations aware of their responsibility in the present and future. He was among the first survivors of the Shoah to set foot again on German soil.
Bacon's drawings show details and sequences of what he saw in the concentration camps and scenes he drew as a teenager shortly after the liberation. His drawings served as evidence in trials against Nazi criminals (including the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials) and were used in the litigation against Holocaust denierDavid Irving, who challenges the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.
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Yehuda Bacon Hebrew יהודה בקון born July 28 1929 in Ostrava is an Israeli artist who survived the Holocaust Yehuda Bacon 2008 Contents 1 Biography 2 Art career 3 Collections 4 Solo exhibitions 5 Group exhibitions 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksBiography editYehuda Bacon was born into a Hasidic Orthodox Jewish family In the fall of 1942 at the age of 13 Bacon was deported with his family from Ostrava to the Ghetto Theresienstadt where he shared a room with George Brady In Theresienstadt he played in the children s opera Brundibar In December 1943 he was deported to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz Birkenau where he and other imprisoned children were used to bedazzle the International Committee of the Red Cross in the so called family camp In fact the Birkenau Boys were used for transport work in the entire complex of Auschwitz II Birkenau In June 1944 Bacon saw his father murdered in the gas chambers At this time his mother and his sister Hanna were deported to the Stutthof concentration camp where they died a few weeks before its liberation On January 18 1945 Bacon was sent on the camp s death march which lasted three days and led him through the Mauthausen Gusen concentration camp to its subcamp Gunskirchen In March Bacon was sent on another death march to a subcamp of Mauthausen Gunskirchen in the woods As he reports there was no food water or clothing On May 5 1945 Bacon was liberated by the US Army Before the SS guards left the camp they poisoned the rest of the food After fleeing to a village many inmates died from eating too much too suddenly in amounts their bodies could no longer handle Bacon and his friend Wolfie Adler who later became an Israeli rabbi and published a book about his experiences left the camp US soldiers brought them to a hospital in the Austrian town Steyr After his recovery Bacon returned to Prague hoping to reunite with his mother and sisters He lived in an orphanage not far from Prague in Stirin which was established by the Czech educator and humanist Premysl Pitter The writer H G Adler was also a teacher there Through Pitter and Adler he found a way to live after the liberation In 1946 Bacon immigrated to Israel with the help of Youth Aliyah There he studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design In 1959 he became a professor of graphic art and drawing at Bezalel 1 Yehuda Bacon lives with his wife Leah Bacon in Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem He has two sons and a daughter by a former marriage to Josephine Bacon Art career edit nbsp Reproduction of Bacon painting Yad Vashem Jerusalem After liberation Bacon decided to become an artist to process his experiences and try to describe what he lived through 2 As a survivor he feels a responsibility to tell his story and to make future generations aware of their responsibility in the present and future He was among the first survivors of the Shoah to set foot again on German soil Bacon s drawings show details and sequences of what he saw in the concentration camps and scenes he drew as a teenager shortly after the liberation His drawings served as evidence in trials against Nazi criminals including the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials and were used in the litigation against Holocaust denier David Irving who challenges the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz His art is a kind of asynergistic interaction on the one hand Bacon processes the experiences of his childhood and youth in the concentration camps on the other he is searching for a way of understanding through his art Bacon was early part of interfaith dialogues and Israeli Palestinian dialogue in the 1950s His art is shown in several museums and collections around the world among the Israel Museum and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem the United States Congress in Washington D C in the homes of Theodore Roosevelt John D Rockefeller Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann as well as in London Collections editYad Vashem Jerusalem Ghetto Fighters House Museum Western Galilee Victoria and Albert Museum London British Museum London Imperial War Museum London Magnes Museum Berkeley Museum am Dom WurzburgSolo exhibitions editNora Gallery Jerusalem 1954 Whippmann Gallery Johannesburg 1955 Princeton University Princeton 1973 Lutheran Education Center Munich 1978 Portland City Hall Portland Oregon 1988 SOCA Gallery Auckland 1995 Studio Visuri Osmo Helsinki 1999 Spectrum Gallery Frankfurt 2004 Museum am Dom Wurzburg 2008 Czech Centre Prague 2011 Group exhibitions editHenny Handler London 1987 starring Naomi Blake St Paul s Church Frankfurt 1999 with Dan Richter Levin Art Museum Tel Aviv 1952 with Isidor Aschheim Naftali Bezem Nahum Gutman Aviva Uri et al 45e Exposition de la Maison des intellectuels Paris 1962 National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo 1962 Pratt Graphic Art Center New York 1966 Art Gallery Sao Paulo 1967 by Mordechai Ardon Moshe Castel Jacob Pins Anna Ticho Yigael Tumarkin et al Gallery of Modern Art Rijeka Ljublijana 1968 Musee d Art Moderne Paris 1981 Imperial War Museum London 2001 The Brooklyn Museum of Art New York 2003 Los Angeles Museum California 2004 Ben Uri Gallery London 2008 Israel and Art 60 years through the eyes of Teddy KolekSee also editVisual arts in IsraelReferences edit Concentration camp Yehuda Bacon Yehuda Bacon Holocaust Survivor and ArtistExternal links editYehuda Bacon Webpage Archived 2013 06 25 at the Wayback Machine Yehuda and Leah Bacon Fellowship German permanent dead link Interview with his daughter BBC journalist Hanna White Interview with Yehuda Bacon Yad Vashem website Yehuda Bacon in the Yad Vashem exhibitions Jerusalem Special Exhibition in Yad Vashem Bezalel Academy Jerusalem Bacon exhibition in the Museum am Dom Wurzburg German Archived 2011 07 19 at the Wayback Machine Art and Holocaust Yehuda Bacon at Memory of Nation site nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yehuda Bacon Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yehuda Bacon amp oldid 1209652282, 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