Emanuel Emo Groag

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Trude and Emanuel Groag’s collection in the name of Ida and Heinz Fleischmann

The Groag collection named for Trude Groag’s parents – Ida and Heinz Fleischmann – contains drawings and paintings by grown-ups, children’s drawings and documents collected by Trude and Emanuel Groag during their time in the ghetto. They were in the ghetto from July 1942 until liberation. The couple, then already nearly sixty years of age, was brought to the ghetto from Olomouc. In the ghetto Trude as a nurse, tended to old people from Germany confined to sickrooms, listless and desperate. When she could not continue with this hard work that brought her to physical breakdown she worked at the mica splitting workshop and later teaching handicrafts to young children. She preserved the children’s works created under her tutelage. While working at the hospital Trude got to know the famous painter Amalie Seckbach from Germany. Amalie brought her paintings to the ghetto and painted there, too. Before her death she disclosed to Trude, where she kept the paintings. In the collection there are 61 paintings by Amalie Seckbach. Trude, herself a painter, immortalized the last days of the old artist in a beautiful drawing. Emanuel Groag worked in a painter’s workshop, copying paintings under Nazi orders and manufacturing illustrated texts. He was close to the artists and through his connections he succeeded to build up a sizable art collection. Having a developed sense of history he hid and preserved the paintings, letters and poems until the end of the war and after liberation – in spite of many difficulties, the Groags kept this treasure and brought it to Israel. Their son, Willy Groag, member of kibbutz Maanit and one of the founders of Beit Theresienstadt, donated it to Beit Theresienstadt.

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• Last Name: Groag
• First Name: Emo
• Date of Birth: 25. 5. 1886
• Fate: Přežil / Survived
• Transport AAm, no. 301 (04. 07. 1942, Olomouc -> Terezín)
• Place of Liberation: Terezín

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