Esther Lurie, Artist of the Kovno Ghetto
Esther Lurie was born in Liepaja, Latvia, emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and returned to the Baltic States several times for exhibitions. She was caught in Lithuania when the war between Germany and the USSR broke out in 1941 and survived the Kovno Ghetto and Stutthoff concentration camp. Many of her works survived in hidden spaces of the Ghetto
For a complete biography of the artist and Kovno Ghetto see:
- Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
- Holocaust Studies
- Jewish Virtual Library, the Kovno Ghetto
- Jewish Virtual Library, Partisan Photos of the Kovno Ghetto
- Learning about the Holocaust through art
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- ushmm.org
Scenes from The Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania all dated 1942
 Girl with a Yellow Badge, 1359 |
 Amid Piles of Furniture, 1360 |
 Temporary Dwellings, 1361 |
 Room after the Slaughter, 1362 |
 Raiding a Potato Field, 1363 |
 The Wooden Bridge (1), 1364 |
 The Wooden Bridge (2) Bridge over "Aryan" Street in the ghetto was repeated in several ghettos., 1365 |
 What was left of the hospital, 1366 |
 What was left of the hospital (detail), 1367 |
 Messenger boy, 1370 |
 The Main Gate of the Kovno Ghetto, 1371 |
 Four Airfield Workers, 1372 |
 At the Communal Kitchens, 1373 |
 Women at the Communal Kitchens, 1374 |
 The Garden Watchers, 1375 |
 Children Carrying Branches, 1376 |
 Courtyard in old Slobodka, 1377 |
 Democrats Square, 1378 |
 Barbed-wire fence and one of the gates of the little ghetto, 1379 |
 The "Big Blocks", 1380 |
 The "Little Blocks" |
 The Road to the Ninth Fort (Killing site), 1384 |
 The Main Ghetto gate and view of the bridge to Slobodka, 1384 |
 The Last Road (Courtesy of Tel Aviv Museum Collection), 1385 |
 House of the Council of Elders (Judenrat), 1386 |