World ORT · Ghetto Fighters’ House
Self-Portrait with a Yellow Star · 1943
Self-portrait made at Drancy on 6 January 1943. Charcoal and colored chalk on grey cardboard; Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum collection, inventory 1271.
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Adolphe Feder
Portraiture as memory
Adolphe Feder, also known as Aizik Féder, was a Jewish painter and illustrator born in Odesa, in present-day Ukraine, and associated with the School of Paris. He painted portraits, landscapes and scenes of everyday life. During his internment at Drancy, he portrayed fellow prisoners. He was deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered in 1943.
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His career connects the artistic life of Paris with the human testimony of his Drancy portraits. His paintings and drawings preserve the presence of people and places from his time.
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World ORT · Ghetto Fighters’ House
A Boy with a Yellow Star Seated by a Laid Table · 1942
Portrait dated 24 December 1942 at Drancy. Charcoal and colored chalk on paper; Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum collection, inventory 1234.
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