Jerzy Adam Brandhuber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish artist
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Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Jerzy Adam Brandhuber
- Jerzy Adam Brandhuber (23 October 1897 – 19 June 1981) was a Polish painter and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Brandhuber was born in Kraków, Poland.
- After having graduated with a degree in pictorial arts at the academy of Fine Arts in Kraków Jerzy Adam Brandhuber worked at a secondary school teaching arts before he was arrested by the Germans in 1942 for "helping the Jews".
- He was brought to the concentration camp of Auschwitz on 14 January 1943.
- Labeled with the inmate number 87112 he was assigned to work in the labor battalion distributing clothes.
- During an evacuation march out of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp he was freed on 3 May 1945 and lived in Lübeck after that. In 1947 Brandhuber started working as a historian at the National Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Due to the limited availability of housing in Poland he received an official residence at the memorial place in which he lived till death. Jerzy Adam Brandhuber created a cycle of paintings called Forgotten Earth in 1946 which conveys his memoirs of Auschwitz.
- Towards the end of his life he concentrated mainly on nude life drawings, portraits and landscapes.
- He died in the city of Oswiecim (Polish name for Auschwitz).
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