Sketchbook from Auschwitz – Through the Sketchbook

22 pages found in a bottle in one of the foundations of a Barrack by a former prisoner and watchman after liberation at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1947. The drawings depict the many aspects of life and death for prisoners. The artist is unknown.

Pencil, with color, on paper.

Artist: MM (unknown).

In the collection of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Collection.

Printed in full for the first time in 2013.

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.