On July 16, 1942, the #Nazis arrested him and sent him to the infamous Janowska concentration camp on the outskirts of the city, commanded by the brutal and sadistic Gustav Willhauspic.twitter.com/xyEBaeRNS9
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On July 16, 1942, the #Nazis arrested him and sent him to the infamous Janowska concentration camp on the outskirts of the city, commanded by the brutal and sadistic Gustav Willhauspic.twitter.com/xyEBaeRNS9
Porath was assigned work as a draftsman working in the camp headquarters, designing various simple buildings for the camp. His position on the third floor of the HQ allowed to also document the camp through drawing.pic.twitter.com/GZ76EoHDjr
He drew what he saw, both to document the camp layout and the horrors he witnessed everyday. Here is a shooting of prisoners by the SS man Richard Rokita which he describes in detail.pic.twitter.com/OlGR0B4lCR
This is the camp orchestra made up of renowned Jewish musicians and artists.pic.twitter.com/GeO0XoMRUz
Porath's artwork was a courageous form of resistance during the #Holocaust. If his drawings of the camp had been discovered, he would likely have been executed. Here is a self-portrait which suggests his attempts to hide his work.pic.twitter.com/drwq0iWAkz
Over 80,000 Jews were murdered in the camp and it served as a transit camp for the murder of Galician Jews at the Belzec extermination center.pic.twitter.com/X92tWPRe3b
Porath survived the camp and also saved a Jewish child in the process. He went on to become a recognized architect and the director of the Tel Aviv Municipality’s architecture department. He also testified at the trials of the guards of the Janowska camp.pic.twitter.com/hh5jsjNppw
For more about his work, seehttps://forward.com/opinion/402410/zeev-porath-chronicled-nazi-rapists-and-other-atrocities-in-his-drawings/ …
Also see the Ghetto Fighter's House Museum (@GFH_Museum) which holds his work and is the source of the drawings in this thread.
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