UTW 38

Joseph Goldberg, his drawing of a horse and cowboy that he sent his mom; and Jacques Benguigui's sketch.

Art: 1998-99
Media: Ink, pencil, colored pencil, ink on brown packing paper, with typed notes on paper, and a stamped Star of David from a rubber stamp
Framed, 30.5 inches H x 26.5 W

Drawn from photos in Serge Klarsfeld’s book The Children of Izieu: A Human Tragedy (Abrams, NY, 1984). The wing sketches were drawn at the Burke. The drawing of Goldberg was drawn in pencil on etching paper and mounted on the brown paper in late 1998. 

I interpretatively copied a black & white photo of a cowboy & horse drawing Goldberg had drawn for his mother, who was in hiding elsewhere in France. Joseph Goldberg was born March 1, 1932. Joseph’s brother Henri-Chaim Goldberg was born Dec. 30, 1930. Jacques Benguigui was born April 13, 1931. His brother Richard Benguigui was born March 31, 1937; his brother Jean-Claude Benguigui was born Dec. 26, 1938.

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Joseph Goldberg, his brother Henri-Chaim and Jacques Benguigui and his younger brothers Richard and Jean-Claude were deported in convoy 71 from Drancy, France to Auschwitz on April 13, 1944. Jacques had his 13th birthday that same day.
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The mother of the Benguigui brothers was Fortunee Chouraki Messouda. She was born April 30, 1904 in Oran, Algeria. She was deported to the Auschwitz death camp in convoy 58 on July 31, 1943. She was subjected to medical experiments in the infamous block 10.

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She survived the war, as did her daughter Yvette, born 1941. She had entrusted Yvette to the care of a neighbor in France.

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The artist extends his gratitude to Serge & Beate Klarsfeld for their years of work in bringing German Gestapo officer, war criminal and murderer Klaus Barbie to trial in France, and for their important work in helping to preserve the memory of and education about the deported and murdered Jews of France.