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How Many Calories are there in Potato Peelings?

Leo Haas1945/1966

Ben Uri

Ben Uri
London, United Kingdom

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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  • Title: How Many Calories are there in Potato Peelings?
  • Creator: Leo Haas
  • Date Created: 1945/1966
  • Physical Dimensions: 27 x 34 cm
  • Type: print
  • Rights: © Leo Haas estate
  • Medium: drypoint and aquatint on paper
  • Art Form: print
  • Support: paper
Ben Uri

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