Carol Deutsch
Carol Deutsch, a Jewish painter, was born
in 1894 in Antwerp, Belgium. After the Nazi conquest of Belgium,
the local Jewish population was included in the destruction of
the Jewish people - the Shoah. Deutsch and his family hid in
Brussels under an assumed name. During the years 1941-42, Deutsch
painted a series of 99 illustrations of the Bible and a wooden
box to hold them, as a birthday present for his two-year-old
daughter, Ingrid. On September 3, 1943, Deutsch was arrested
by the SS. His wife tried to rescue him by going to the police,
but, as a result, she herself was arrested. On the night of September
3-4, Deutsch and his wife were shipped, in transport 22B to Auschwitz,
and were murdered there on September 22. Ingrid and the Bible
were saved by neighbors. Ingrid moved to the United States, where
she died in 1982. She bequeathed the Bible illustrations and
box to Yad Vashem.
Facsimile
copies made of some of the pages of the Bible were presented to the
Pope during his visit to Yad Vashem in the winter of 2000.
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