Karel Fleischmann

Born February 22, 1897 in Klatovy, Czechoslovakia; died 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau

Background
Fleischmann, whose father was a printer/lithographer, studied medicine at Charles University in Prague and worked as a dermatologist in Ćeska Budőjovice. He painted, made prints and wrote poems and was a founding member of the avant-garde artist group The Line. By 1937 he had published several print serials in lithograph and woodcut.

Deportation to Theresienstadt
April 18, 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, where he worked in health administration and continued to paint and write poems.

Transfer to Auschwitz
With his wife, he was deported to Auschwitz on October 23, 1944 and was sent to the gas chambers.

Bibliography

Novitch, Miriam, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, and Tom L. Freudenheim.  Spiritual Resistance: Art from Concentration Camps, 1940-1945.  Philadelphia, 1981.

Seeing through "Paradise." Artists and the Terezín Concentration Camp. Boston, 1991.