Burning of the Synagogue on Tlomacka Street – Warsaw – Oil Painting

Burning of the Synagogue on Tlomacka Street – Warsaw – Oil Painting
A Torah scroll rescued from the burning Synagogue on Tlomacka Street. Poland, [mid 20th century]. Oil on canvas mounted on plywood.
The painting shows the figure of a Jew holding a Torah scroll, rescued from the Tlomacka Synagogue rising in flames. "Beit HaKnesset HaGadol of Warsaw" / The Synagogue on Tlomacka Street was planned by the Architect Leonardo Marconi and was inaugurated in 1878 with 1100 seats. In 1943, at the end of the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the District SS officer ordered flaunting the bombing of the Synagogue, and its photographs were sent to Heinrich Himmler's headquarter in Berlin as a sign that the Jewish life in Warsaw was extinguished.
49.5X68.5 cm. Several damages.