produced art for many different reasons, ranging from the "official commissions"
ordered by the SS
guards and camp functionaries to the secret scraps of paper with "clandestine"
images that served as catharsis or as documentation, to be smuggled to the world
beyond the concentration camps. Many of these works were gestures of resistance.
Artists
of varying degrees
Mieczysław
Kościelniak, Prisoners I, 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim
of
proficiency and levels of training
.jpg)