About Horst Rosenthal
Lived 1915 – 1942 (aged 26–27). Horst Rosenthal was a German and French painter, comics artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
Horst Sigmund Rosenthal (10 August 1915 – 11 September 1942) was a German-born cartoonist of Jewish descent. In 1986, Elsbeth Kasser, a Swiss nurse who voluntarily lived in camp Gurs to assist the detainees, donated Petit Guide à travers le Camp de Gurs, and other works created by inmates, to the Skovgaard Museum in Viborg, Denmark. (Some sources state that all three comics were donated to the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine by Rabbi Max Ansbacher, who had worked as a chaplain at Gurs.)
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Who was Horst Rosenthal?
German-Jewish cartoonist (1915–1942)
When was Horst Rosenthal born?
Horst Rosenthal was born on 10 August 1915 in Wrocław.
When did Horst Rosenthal die?
Horst Rosenthal died in 1942 in Auschwitz.
What was Horst Rosenthal's occupation?
Horst Rosenthal was a painter, comics artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
What nationality was Horst Rosenthal?
Horst Rosenthal was German and French.
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