The Friendly Gestapo Man
Номер объектаM2019/033:017
НазваниеThe Friendly Gestapo Man
Создатель Bob McPhillips
ОписаниеThe Friendly Gestapo Man
Artist Bob McPhillips, charcoal on paper, undated, unsigned.
"The Sergeant from the police station eventually took me into the next building with a very large room with lots of young men in. All had lost their papers and were waiting to be interviewed by the Gestapo. Amongst them were two Dutch fellows and a Flemish man. They noticed that I had a number on my left arm and I told them about the patch on the back of my coat. The Flemish fellow who was a tailor offered to help me and take the patch out. One of the Dutch fellows offered to be my interpreter and would tell them that I had recently come from Holland to work in Germany and had lost my papers in the snow storm. Eventually I was interviewed by the Gestapo and after many question, he shook my hand, wished me all the best and to have a pleasant stay in Germany."
Part of a collection of drawings by Lyndsey Hatchwell, Joanne Morris and Bob McPhillips commissioned by Harry J. Fransman to illustrate his Holocaust experiences.
Harry J. Fransman recalls countless brushes with death but survived due to a series of ‘miracles’. On 10 May 1940, Germany invaded The Netherlands. It was the beginning of a five-year fight for survival. From the German bombing of Rotterdam where, as a 17-year-old apprentice in the men’s section of a department store he was the only survivor of the bomb blast, through the increasingly brutal antisemitic measures of the occupation, the inhumane treatment he experienced as a forced labourer, the harsh conditions he encountered in Blechhammer (sub-camp of Auschwitz), to his daring escape from a death march in the last chaotic weeks of the collapsing Third Reich, Harry’s story is expressed through drawings.
Focusing on these events experienced throughout the war, Harry does not hold back on relating graphic details for the artists to depict: selection, roll call, punishment (beatings, whippings, hangings), humiliation, sexual abuse, starvation, exhaustion, infestation with lice, and cannibalism in Gross-Rosen concentration camp, all illustrated through the direction and narration of the survivor in collaboration with the skilled artists. These seminal events, seared into Harry’s memory, confront the viewer with the harsh reality of the war years and illuminate why survivors, like Harry, attribute their survival to a ‘miracle’.
Artist Bob McPhillips, charcoal on paper, undated, unsigned.
"The Sergeant from the police station eventually took me into the next building with a very large room with lots of young men in. All had lost their papers and were waiting to be interviewed by the Gestapo. Amongst them were two Dutch fellows and a Flemish man. They noticed that I had a number on my left arm and I told them about the patch on the back of my coat. The Flemish fellow who was a tailor offered to help me and take the patch out. One of the Dutch fellows offered to be my interpreter and would tell them that I had recently come from Holland to work in Germany and had lost my papers in the snow storm. Eventually I was interviewed by the Gestapo and after many question, he shook my hand, wished me all the best and to have a pleasant stay in Germany."
Part of a collection of drawings by Lyndsey Hatchwell, Joanne Morris and Bob McPhillips commissioned by Harry J. Fransman to illustrate his Holocaust experiences.
Harry J. Fransman recalls countless brushes with death but survived due to a series of ‘miracles’. On 10 May 1940, Germany invaded The Netherlands. It was the beginning of a five-year fight for survival. From the German bombing of Rotterdam where, as a 17-year-old apprentice in the men’s section of a department store he was the only survivor of the bomb blast, through the increasingly brutal antisemitic measures of the occupation, the inhumane treatment he experienced as a forced labourer, the harsh conditions he encountered in Blechhammer (sub-camp of Auschwitz), to his daring escape from a death march in the last chaotic weeks of the collapsing Third Reich, Harry’s story is expressed through drawings.
Focusing on these events experienced throughout the war, Harry does not hold back on relating graphic details for the artists to depict: selection, roll call, punishment (beatings, whippings, hangings), humiliation, sexual abuse, starvation, exhaustion, infestation with lice, and cannibalism in Gross-Rosen concentration camp, all illustrated through the direction and narration of the survivor in collaboration with the skilled artists. These seminal events, seared into Harry’s memory, confront the viewer with the harsh reality of the war years and illuminate why survivors, like Harry, attribute their survival to a ‘miracle’.
Дата 2014 - 2014
Наименованиеdrawings
Материалpaper
Размерность
- width: 1170.00 mm
height: 880.00 mm
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Harry Fransman