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How Many Calories are there in Potato Peelings?

How Many Calories are there in Potato Peelings?
drypoint and aquatint on paper
27 x 34
and dated (lower right): 'Leo Haas 1945/66'
1988-23v
@Leo Haas estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
In September 1942, Leo Haas was deported to the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto, north of Prague. As an artist, Haas was assigned to the Technical Department to illustrate propaganda material, which...
In September 1942, Leo Haas was deported to the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto, north of Prague. As an artist, Haas was assigned to the Technical Department to illustrate propaganda material, which enabled him to secretly make a series of pictures showing what life in Theresienstadt was really like. He risked his life making these works, hiding the prints in walls and with the other inhabitants of Theresienstadt. After the war, Haas returned to Terezin, and retrieved some 400 of his drawings. This powerful and haunting image is one of ten in the Ben Uri Collection printed after the war using the original plate created during the Holocaust.
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