Meeting with Hadasa and Clila Bau (Israel)

March 17, 2009 at 12 pm

Hadasa and Clila Bau will discuss the work of their father Jozef Bau
Józef Bau (b. 1920 in Krakow, d. 2002 in Israel)
Polish writer, poet and art designer of Jewish descent. Bau was trained as a graphic artist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland. His education was interrupted by World War II and he was transferred to the Plaszow concentration camp in late 1941.
Having a talent in gothic lettering, he was employed in the camp for making signs and maps for the Germans. While in Plaszow, Bau created a miniature – the size of his hand – illustrated book with his own poetry. He also forged documents and identity papers for people who managed to escape from the camp.
During his imprisonment, Bau fell in love with another inmate, Rebecca Tennenbaum. They were secretly married, despite prohibition by the Germans, in the women’s barracks of Plaszow. The history was dramatized in Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award winning movie Schindler’s List.
After Plaszow, Bau was transferred to Gross-Rosen and then to Oscar Schindler’s, camp where he stayed till the end of the war. After liberation, Bau graduated from the University of Plastic Arts in Krakow. In 1950, he immigrated to Israel together with his wife and three year old daughter, where he worked as a graphic artist at the Brandwein Institute in Haifa and for the government of Israel. Bau opened his own studio in 1956 in Tel Aviv. He was well known for drawing titles for almost all Israeli movies in the 1960s and 70s. At the same time, he authored a number of Hebrew books and continued to write poetry.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bau
Read more: http://www.josephbau.org/index.html

The discussion will be held in Polish. Free admission!