Józef Szajna (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuzɛf ˈʂajna]; 13 March 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland – 24 June 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.[1]

Józef Szajna (middle) in 1945
Modern sculpture "Ladders to Heaven" at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko

During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.[2]

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Further reading

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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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Works

References

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  1. ^ Proko, Barbara; Stickles, Janice Baniukiewicz (2007). Worcester County's Polish Community. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5454-9.
  2. ^ "Oral history interview with Jozef Szajna - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2023-10-07.