Biography Of David Olère1902 Born in
Warsaw on January 19.
1918 Already a trained artist, he left Poland for Danzig and Berlin, where he exhibited
woodcuts on the Kantstrasse.
1921 Employed by the Europäische Film Allianz in Berlin as a painter, sculptor, and
assistant architect.
1923 Moved to Paris, where he designed sets, costumes, and publicity posters for films,
in particular for Paramount Pictures.
1930 Married Juliette Ventura. They had a son, Alexandre.
1937 Moved to Noisy le Grand.
1943 Arrested by the French police on February 20 and interned in Drancy transit camp.
Deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on March 2 in transport number 49, with some one
thousand other Jews. Worked as a trench digger, then as a Sonderkommando of Krematorium
III, emptying the gas chambers and burning corpses in the ovens.
1945 Sent on death march to Mauthausen on January 19. From therel was transferred to
the Melk camp on the Danuben Liberated from Ebensee camp in Austria by the U.S. Army on
May 6. Immediately began his sketches of the horrors he had witnessed.
1985 Died in Paris on August 21. Although he was 83, he died not from disease, but from
despair at hearing university "intellectuals" say that the genocide which he
personally witnessed did not exist and was mere Zionist propaganda.
