Born in Suceava, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1909. Died in Hove, England, in 1985.
"To Selma [Meerbaum-Eisinger] the works looked tame, as according to her they did not show sufficient cruelty. While all I wanted to do was to depict life in the camp. Have I achieved it? Heaven knows"
Deborah Schultz-Edward Timms (eds.), Arnold Daghani’s Memories of Mikhailowka. The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor, Vallentine Mitchell,
London - Portland, 2009, p. 104
Gouache on paper
13.7X14.6 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
Gouache on paper
17X11.3 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
Born in 1876. Around 1920, moved with his family from Chortkow to Czernowitz. In 1940, deported to the Czernowitz Ghetto and from there to the Mikhailowka Labor Camp in August 1942. Following the Partisans‘ attack of the camp in August 1943, he escaped and reached the Bershad Ghetto. After the war, lived in Israel, where he died in 1966.
Gouache on paper
21.8X10.7 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Born in Burshtyn, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1884. Married to Baruch Semmel and moved to Czernowitz. Deported together with her family to the Czernowitz Ghetto in 1940. In August 1942, deported to the Mikhailowka Labor Camp. In April 1943, she and their daughter Zyla were executed together with other 53 inmates.
Gouache on paper
14.1X11.6 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
Born in Czernowitz, Romania, in 1924. Deported to the Mikhailowka Labor Camp, where he contracted internal Tuberculosis and perished in March 1943.
Gouache on paper
12.5X8.3 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
Businessman
Born in Sadagura, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1889. Deported to the Czernowitz Ghetto in 1940 and from there in June 1942 to the Tulczyn Labor Camp, where he was shot to death in December 1942.
Gouache on paper
13.8X12.2 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem
Businessman and accountant. Spokesman of the Jewish inmates in the Mikhailowka Labor Camp.
Born 1894 in Dorohoi, Romania. Deported to the Czernowitz Ghetto and from there to the Mikhailowka Labor Camp. Murdered in the Tarassivka Labor Camp in December 1943.
Gouache on paper
13X9 cm
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
