{"id":686,"date":"2021-01-09T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/butch.se\/le\/?page_id=686"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T09:12:33","slug":"our-lost-chagall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/","title":{"rendered":"Our lost Chagall (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”20″ z_index=”” padding_bottom=”20″][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

(Ett f\u00f6rsvunnet konstverk) Lena Einhorn Film and Sveriges Television; 58 min.
\nWriter: Lena Einhorn
\nProducer: Lena Einhorn
\nPhotographers: Dan Myhrman, Lena Einhorn and Bengt Berg
\nEditor: Maria Sleszynska<\/h5>\n

G\u00f6ring took them.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what my dad used to say. G\u00f6ring took them \u2026 Why G\u00f6ring?<\/p>\n

For this is what they said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Was that really what \u201cthey\u201d said? That it was G\u00f6ring who took them? Could it not have been Goebbels or Himmler, or Ribbentrop, or Minister of Finance Walther Funk, or union leader Robert Ley \u2013 or Hitler himself? All of them, after all, laid their hands on stolen art.<\/p>\n

But with regard to Pinkus Einhorn\u2019s art, it was obviously G\u00f6ring. Or that\u2019s just what my father assumed, since G\u00f6ring was the most \u201csuccessful\u201d art thief among the Nazi leaders.<\/p>\n

My father, Jerzy Einhorn, who passed away in 2000, in fact described in detail what happened that day in November 1939, when three German officers came to their home, in the Polish city of Czestochowa. The story is found on page 118 of his memoir, Chosen to live:<\/p>\n

At the beginning of November, 1939, the green German order police van drives into the big rear courtyard of our apartment block. Three policemen get out, come up the stairs and knock on our door. They are polite and wish to speak to \u201cHerr Schneidermeister Pinkus Einhorn\u201d, and ask if they may come into the living room \u2013 then do so before.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pinkus has time to say they may. One is an officer \u2013 Oberleutnant \u2013 the other two subordinates, ordinary policemen, but the officer has an SS badge. He introduces himself \u2013 Oberleutnant \u00dcberscheer \u2013 without holding out his hand \u2013 you don\u2019t shake hands with a Jew. \u00dcberscheer tells Pinkus that they have orders from Berlin to requisition seven paintings in our home \u2013 we are to be given a receipt. He takes out a list, shows it to Pinkus and asks with a sharp edge to his voice whether the listed paintings are still there in the apartment. Pinkus looks at the list and says \u2013 yes, that\u2019s right, they are here.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard this story about the confiscated paintings all my life, ever since I was very small. The story sparked my imagination, so when I was 18 years old, and visited my grandmother in Canada, I asked her to describe exactly the paintings that the Nazis had taken from their home. My father and uncle were also there,filling in the details. I wrote everything down in pencil, on a small piece of paper. I still have it. It reads: \u201cChagall: Man with beard and kipah. He holds a Torash. Black-white-red. 0.5 x 0.75 m \u201d<\/p>\n

Why did I ask them that particular summer? Because I had just seen a program on television, a program where they showed a huge underground storage facility, filled with thousands of unclaimed works of art that the Nazis had stolen.<\/p>\n

After seeing the documentary, and after receiving the description of the paintings, I called up the West German embassy in Stockholm. A man answered. I described my errand. He answered tersely, and quickly hung up. And I dropped my search. It would take forty years before I resumed it.<\/p>\n

Our lost Chagall<\/em> is the story of my two-year search for Pinkus Einhorn\u2019s six stolen paintings \u2013 in German archives, among art experts, in auction catalogs, looking for German officers.<\/p>\n

And it is the story of the small family Einhorn. The one that survived the Holocaust in the southern Polish Town of Czestochowa \u2013 that survied the the large ghetto, the small ghetto, and concentration camp Hasag. And that after the war chose to forget the six paintings the Nazis had stolen from them an autumn day, in late 1939.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”972″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”element_from_right”][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”973″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”element_from_right”][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”971″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”element_from_right”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”20″ z_index=”” padding_bottom=”20″][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text] (Ett f\u00f6rsvunnet konstverk) Lena Einhorn Film and Sveriges Television; 58 min. Writer: Lena Einhorn Producer: Lena Einhorn Photographers: Dan Myhrman, Lena Einhorn and Bengt Berg Editor: Maria Sleszynska G\u00f6ring took them. That\u2019s what…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-686","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nOur lost Chagall (2012) - Lena Einhorn English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"sv_SE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our lost Chagall (2012) - Lena Einhorn English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”20″ z_index=”” padding_bottom=”20″][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text] (Ett f\u00f6rsvunnet konstverk) Lena Einhorn Film and Sveriges Television; 58 min. Writer: Lena Einhorn Producer: Lena Einhorn Photographers: Dan Myhrman, Lena Einhorn and Bengt Berg Editor: Maria Sleszynska G\u00f6ring took them. That\u2019s what...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lena Einhorn English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-05T09:12:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lena-ett.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"892\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Ber\u00e4knad l\u00e4stid\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minuter\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/\",\"name\":\"Our lost Chagall (2012) - Lena Einhorn English\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-09T14:43:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-05T09:12:33+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"sv-SE\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Hem\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Films\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Our lost Chagall (2012)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/\",\"name\":\"Lena Einhorn English\",\"description\":\"writer, filmmaker and doctor\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"sv-SE\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Our lost Chagall (2012) - Lena Einhorn English","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/","og_locale":"sv_SE","og_type":"article","og_title":"Our lost Chagall (2012) - Lena Einhorn English","og_description":"[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”20″ z_index=”” padding_bottom=”20″][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text] (Ett f\u00f6rsvunnet konstverk) Lena Einhorn Film and Sveriges Television; 58 min. Writer: Lena Einhorn Producer: Lena Einhorn Photographers: Dan Myhrman, Lena Einhorn and Bengt Berg Editor: Maria Sleszynska G\u00f6ring took them. That\u2019s what...","og_url":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/","og_site_name":"Lena Einhorn English","article_modified_time":"2021-02-05T09:12:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":892,"url":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lena-ett.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Ber\u00e4knad l\u00e4stid":"4 minuter"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/","url":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/","name":"Our lost Chagall (2012) - Lena Einhorn English","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-01-09T14:43:02+00:00","dateModified":"2021-02-05T09:12:33+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"sv-SE","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/our-lost-chagall\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Hem","item":"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Films","item":"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/movies\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Our lost Chagall (2012)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/#website","url":"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/","name":"Lena Einhorn English","description":"writer, filmmaker and doctor","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"sv-SE"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686\/revisions\/976"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lenaeinhorn.se\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}