Poster – Five Years to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – Henryk Hechtkopf

"Zi hobn gekempft far undzer kavod un frihaiyt" [they fought for our honor and liberty], poster commemorating five years to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. M. Wieckowski Printing press, Warsaw, 1948. Poster commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with a remarkable illustration by the artist Henryk Hechtkopf: a man and a woman hold rifles and break through barbed wire. The title – "they fought for our honor and liberty" – printed in Yiddish and Russian. In the same year an additional poster was printed with the title in Yiddish and Hebrew. Henryk Hechtkopf (1910-2004), painter and illustrator, native of Warsaw. When WW II broke out, he retreated with the Polish Army into the Soviet Union, was arrested and sent to various labor camps. When the war ended he returned to Poland and found out that all his family perished. In 1949 designed the first stamp in the world with reference to the Holocaust and won first prize in an international competition of posters about the Holocaust. Made Aliya to Israel in 1957 with his wife and settled in Bat Yam. He made a living by painting and illustrating books. 50X70 cm. Good condition. Folding marks.