Malva Schalek was born in Prague on 18 February 1882, into a cultured, German-speaking Jewish family, which came originally from Bohemia. In view of her outstanding artistic talent, she was sent to Munich, where she studied art at the Frauenakademie - The Women’s Academy. Afterwards, she moved to Vienna, where she continued her art studies with the well-known woman artist Hasek-Rosenthal. After the ‘Anschluss’, the annexation of Austria to Germany in March 1938, with the introduction of antisemetic laws and virulent persecutions by the Nazis, Schalek fled Vienna, leaving behind her studio full of works. She moved to Leitmoritz in Czechoslovakia, in 1942 Malva Schalek was compelled to enter the Terezin. Despite her failing health, she was able to draw and paint more than 100 works in which she depicted…show more content… He studied in Prague, in the Academy of Creative Arts, and after graduation he returned to Brno, teaching painting, mathematics and geometry in a Jewish High school.
In 1942 he and his family were deported in a transport to Terezin. He also created paintings in secret, like his friends. He succeeded in hiding several of his paintings and some of them were smuggled out of the ghetto limits.
Otto Unger was interrogated and brutally tortured, then sent to Auschwitz. During the interrogations the Nazis broke Unger's right arm. His friends remember seeing him to hold a piece of charcoal between his fingers, desperately trying to express his last feelings. http://collection.mjhnyc.org/ search collection for his artwork
Ferdinand (Felix) Bloch
Ferdinand Bloch was born in Vienna, on August 15, 1898. He worked in Vienna as a graphic artist. In 1938 he went to Prague where he taught painting in lessons organized by the Jewish Community. He was deported to Terezin on 30.7.1942, there he joined other artists who worked in the Graphic
