Horst Rosenthal
German-Jewish cartoonist (1915–1942) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Horst Sigmund Rosenthal (10 August 1915 – 11 September 1942) was a German-born cartoonist of Jewish descent.[1][lower-alpha 1] He is best known for his 1942 French comic book Mickey au Camp de Gurs (Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp) which he created while he was a prisoner at the Gurs internment camp in France during World War II. He was later transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where he was murdered on arrival.[4][5]
Horst Rosenthal | |
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Born | Horst Sigmund Rosenthal (1915-08-10)10 August 1915 Breslau, German Empire |
Died | 11 September 1942(1942-09-11) (aged 27) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland |
Nationality | German (until 1935) |
Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Inker, Colourist |
Notable works | Mickey au Camp de Gurs |
Rosenthal also created two other French comic books while incarcerated in Gurs, La Journée d'un Hébergé (A Day in the Life of a Camp Resident) and Petit Guide à travers le Camp de Gurs (Little Guide Through the Gurs Camp). The three books were first published in October 2014 by Calmann-Lévy and the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, 72 years after they were written.[4]