Szalit, Rahel, 1888-1942

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Personality
| מספר מערכת 987007268769405171
Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
שליט-מרכוס, רחל, 1894-1942
Name (Latin)
Szalit, Rahel, 1888-1942
Other forms of name
Szalit-Marcus, Rahel
Marcus, Rahel Szalit-
Date of birth
1894
Date of death
1942
Field of activity
Art
Illustration of books
Portraits
Occupation
Artists
Illustrators
Portrait painters
Associated Language
yid
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 295425015
Wikidata: Q20022900
1 / 4
Wikipedia description:

Rahel Szalit-Marcus (2 July 1888 – August 1942) was a Jewish artist and illustrator. Born Rahel Markus in Telz [Telsiai] in the Kovno region of Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, she was active in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and in Paris in the 1930s. She was best known for her illustrations of East European Jewish subjects. Szalit-Marcus was murdered at Auschwitz in August 1942.

Read more on Wikipedia >