Józef Szajna

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

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.

See also
  • Centre of Polish Sculpture

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.

Works


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