Józef Szajna (; 13 March 1922 in

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ; la, Resovia; yi, ריישא ''Raisha'')) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów has been the capital of the Subcarpathian Vo ...

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– 24 June 2008 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist. During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German

concentration camp Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

and

Buchenwald Buchenwald (; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or su ...

* 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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Articles about Józef Szajna - Teatr im. Siemaszkowej in Rzeszów

Art and Auschwitz - Józef Szajna's ''"The Roll Call Lasted Very Long ... My Feet Hurt Very Much",'' ca. 1944-45 ca. 1944-45
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Works by Józef Szajna at Gallery Katarzyna Napiorkowska in Warsaw and Brussels
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