Author: Marian Ruzamski

Marian Ruzamski (born Feb. 2, 1889, in Lipnik, Bielsko Biała, Poland; died March 8, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen, Germany), whose birth name was Mazur, studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków before WWI. During WWI, he was a PoW held in a Russian camp near Kharkiv. He experienced the cruelties of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. On April 4th, 1943, Ruzamski was arrested in Poland for his alleged Jewish descent and homosexuality, and incarcerated in the Auschwitz Camp (reg. no. 122843). He was allowed to keep painting while at that camp, and many of his camp pieces survived. At war's end, he was evacuated west to the Bergen-Belsen Camp, where he succumbed to the catastrophic conditions then prevailing in that camp.

Painting with eggs in Auschwitz

By Marian Ruzamski ∙ February 13, 2021

Artists at Auschwitz. There was a number of Jewish artists at the camp. One escaped the "gas chamber" by hiding in the hospital! Most of them survived. Of course, you normally have a few artists in a "death camp". Using egg yolks (mixed with colour pigments) in painting, was a method used by the Romans, and…

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