Józef Szajna
Józef Szajna (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuzɛf ˈʂajna]; b. March 13, 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland, d. June 24, 2008 in Warsaw) was 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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Further reading
- 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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Szajna, Jozef |
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March 13, 1922 |
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June 24, 2008 |
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