Yehuda Bacon

Yehuda Bacon (Hebrew: יהודה בקון; born July 28, 1929, in Ostrava) is an Israeli artist and holocaust survivor.

In the fall of 1942, at the age of 13, Bacon was deported with his family from Ostrava to the Ghetto Theresienstadt, where he shared a room with George Brady.

At this time, his mother and his sister Hanna were deported to the Stutthof concentration camp, where they died a few weeks before its liberation.

Bacon and his friend Wolfie Adler (who later became an Israeli rabbi and published a book about his experiences) left the camp.

He lived in an orphanage not far from Prague in Štiřín, which was established by the Czech educator and humanist Přemysl Pitter.

Bacon's drawings show details and sequences of what he saw in the concentration camps and scenes he drew as a teenager shortly after the liberation.