Portrait of Yitzhak Katzenelson

Lea Lilienblum

1943

Portrait painting of a bald man, whose face looks gaunt and injured, looking at the viewer.
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Creator Bio

Lea Lilienblum

20th Century

Lea Lilienblum was a Polish-born artist best known for her haunting portrait of the Yiddish poet Yitshak Katzenelson, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. Lilienblum and Katzenelson were both prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto; Lilienblum drew his image on the back of a shoebox. Lilienblum survived the ghetto and immigrated to Israel after the war, where she settled on Kibbutz Loḥamei HaGeta’ot.

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