*Baruch, Bora Birth - Death : 1911-1942 Nationality : Yugoslav
Painter. Baruch was arrested and shot dead by Nazi troops on June 7th 1942. Some of his works are on display at the National Museum in Belgrade.
*Begleiter, Elzbieta Birth - Death : 1920-1942 or 1943 Nationality : Polish
Begleiter was a victim of the Holocaust during the Second World War.
*Berencweik, Berenzweig Mala Birth - Death : ? -1942? Nationality : Polish
Painter. Berencweik died in the ghetto of Bialystok during World War Two. Possible confusion with Estera Berncwejg, born in 1914, who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Cracow.
*Berger, Otti Birth - Death : 1898-1945 Nationality : Hungarian
Berger studied textile decoration techniques at the Bauhaus between 1927 and 1933 and worked for a while in Berlin. She died in a Nazi extermination camp at the end of World War Two.
*Berliner, A. Birth - Death : ? -1942 Nationality : Polish
painter. Berliner died in the ghetto of Bialystok during World War Two.
*Berlinerblau-Seydenman, Dorota Birth - Death : 1900-? Nationality : Polish
Painter. Berlinerblau-Seydenman studied at the Academy in Cracow between 1921 and 1924 and produced works under the influence of Matisse and Bonnard.
*Berncwejg, Estera Birth - Death : 1914-? Nationality : Polish
Painter. Berncwejg studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Cracow. Possible confusion with Mela Berencweik. See list.
*Biro, Ernest Birth - Death : 1905-1943 or early 1944 Nationality : Hungarian
Biro studied drawing in Budapest before working as a caricaturist for several periodicals. He settled in Paris in 1932, where he was nicknamed the “Charming Bohemian” and continued to send his caricatures to various French and Hungarian newspapers. During the Second World War Biro Ernest actively campaigned against the Nazis but was arrested by the Gestapo on November 22nd 1943. Detained in Drancy, Biro was then deported on December 7th 1943 to Auschwitz where he was murdered.
*Blankstein or Blankenstein, Helena Birth - Death : 1904-? Nationality : Polish
Blankenstein exhibited her paintings in various Parisian Salons after studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw. Blankstein presumably died during World War Two.
*Blum, Heinrich Birth - Death : 1894-1942 Nationality : Czech
Architect. Blum disappeared during World War Two.
*Blum-Lazarus, Sophie Birth - Death : 1867-1944 Nationality : German
Blum-Lazarus studied painting in Frankfurt and in Munich. She took an interest in tapestry and exhibited her works in Paris. Arrested there by the Vichy police at the end of World War Two, Blum-Lazarus was deported to a Nazi extermination camp, where she died.
*Bornstein, Zofia Birth - Death : 1907-? Nationality : Polish
Zofia Bornstein exhibited her paintings at the Salon d'Automne in Paris between 1926 and 1928 and at the Editions Bonaparte gallery in 1929.
*Brainin, David Birth - Death : 1905-1942 Nationality : Ukrainian
Brainin lived in poverty during his youth before going to Palestine, where he spent five years. He came in 1924 to Paris and studied painting and choreography before marrying a Russian ballerina. Branin visited South America in 1931 and then studied at the School of Beaux-Arts in Paris. Working as a decorator in the film industry he was arrested in April 1942 in Paris and detained in Compiegne where he produced some drawings. Branin was deported on September 18th 1942 to Auschwitz where he was murdered.
*Bronstein, Joseph Birth - Death : 1898-1943 Nationality : Ukrainian
Joseph Bronstein's main ambition was to become an artist but his parents wanted him instead to become a lawyer. He finally managed to go to Odessa to study painting and took part in the Russian revolution before deciding to pursue his studies in Germany. He then frequented the School of Beaux-Arts in 1924 in Paris and painted portraits and landscapes. A keen collector of works by Kremegne, Indenbaum, Dobrinsky or E. Mandelbaum, Bronstein tried to reach southern France in 1940 but was intercepted by French gendarmes in Chateauroux. Deported on March 3rd 1943 He was murdered in Auschwitz.
*Bruck, Hermina Birth - Death : 1865-1944 Nationality : Hungarian
Painter. Hermina Bruck died during World War Two.
*Bruhis, Efim Birth - Death : 1901-1942 Nationality : Russian?
Painter. Bruhis died in a Nazi extermination camp during World War Two.
*Brzezinski, Aron Birth - Death : 1890-1940 Nationality : Polish
Better known as a sculptor, Aron Brzezinski exhibited his works at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris between 1925 and 1927. He died during World War Two.
*Centnerszwer Stanislawa Birth - Death : 1899- 1942 Nationality : Polish
Painter. Centnerszwer, who studied painting previously in France, was killed during World War Two in Bialystok with her husband, the composer and music critic Maksymilian. During her ordeal that led to her death she painted three works that were donated around 1950 to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
*Chajfec, Leon Birth - Death : ?-1939-1945 Nationality : Polish
Chajfec worked as an illustrator for some Polish periodicals. He exhibited with the Jewish painters from the ZTKSP group in 1925. Only two of his works, one depicting a fiddler dated 1925 and a scene showing a roving circus painted in 1927, are known. Chajfec disappeared during World War Two.
*Chalep, Selma Birth - Death : 1904-1943 Nationality : Polish
Painter. Chalep died during World War Two.
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