Józef Szajna

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Józef Szajna · Zbigniew Wąsiel Gdańsk  1991 action "Kapsuła czasu"
Józef Szajna · Zbigniew Wąsiel Gdańsk 1991 action "Kapsuła czasu"
Modern sculpture "Ladders to Heaven" at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko
Modern sculpture "Ladders to Heaven" at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko

Józef Szajna (b. March 13, 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland) is a Polish scenery designer, stage director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.

During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

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  • Archives and art collection at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.
  • Bodek, Andrzej, ed. Reminiszenzen: ein Environment von Prof. Jósef Szajna: zum 50. Jahrestag der Befreiung von Auschwitz-Birkenau. Frankfurt am Main, 1995.
  • Archives and art collection at the Buchenwald Memorial Museum, Weimar.
  • Madeyski, Jerzy and Andrzej Zurowski. Józef Szajna: plastyka, teatr. Warsaw, 1992.
  • Milton, Sybil and Janet Blatter. Art of the Holocaust. New York, 1981.
  • Sybil Milton interviews and conversations with Józef Szajna at Warsaw 1980 and 1995,
  • Auschwitz 1988, and Venice 1990.
  • Oleksy, Krystyna, ed. Swiat Józefa Szajny. Oświęcim, 1995.
  • Józef Szajna: Appell: Geschichtszeichen und Kunstwerk in der Dauerausstellung zur
  • Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Buchenwald. Weimar, 1995.
  • Szajna, Józef. "Replika - Erinnerungen: Künstleriche Protest-Aktion gegen den Terror," and "Gespräch zwischen Detlef Hoffmann und Józef Szajna," in Detlef Hoffmann and Karl Ermert, eds. Kunst und Holocaust: Loccumer Protokolle, No. 14 (1990), 74-99.

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