IN DIESEM HAUS WOHNTE
DER MALER
ADOLF FRANKL
PRESSBURG 1903-1983 WIEN
HIER ENTSTAND DER BILDERZYKLUS
VISIONEN AUS DEM INFERNO
DARSTELLUNGEN SEINER ERLEBNISSE IM KZ AUSCHWITZ -BIRKENAU
"MIT MEINEN WERKEN HABE ICH ALLEN VÖLKERN DIESER WELT EIN MAHNMAL GESETZT . ES SOLL NIEMANDEM , EGAL WELCHE RELIGION . RASSE ODER POLITISCHE ANSCHAUUNG ER VERTRITT . DIESES ODER ÄHNLICHES WIDERFAHREN"

GEWIDMET IM GEDENKJAHR 1998 AM 28 SEPTEMBER

ADOLF FRANKL ז"ל
1903 BRATISLAVA - 1983 VIENNA
LIVED AND WORKED IN THIS HOUSE.
HERE, HE CREATED THE CYCLE OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
VISIONS FROM THE INFERNO
DEPICTING HIS EXPERIENCES IN THE EXTERMINATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU.
"THROUGH MY WORKS I HAVE CREATED A MEMORIAL FOR ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
NO ONE, REGARDLESS OF RELIGION, RACE OR POLITICAL CONVICTION SHOULD EVER AGAIN SUFFER SUCH - OR SIMILAR - ATROCITIES!"
THE FRANKL FAMILY EXPRESS THEIR HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO ALL WHO HELPED THEM, AND OTHERS TO SURVIVE THE HOLOCAUST.

Adolf Frankl, an Austrian Jewish painter, who, after being in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, created the series of pictures "Visions from Hell - Art Against Oblivion", in which he described his years in the camp.
Please note that in the English-language plaque, "of blessed memory" appears in Hebrew (ז"ל) after the painter’s name

The house where the painter lived was photographed that day Click for a larger image