page_title: Adolphe Féder
section_title: Internment and death
hierarchical_section_title: Adolphe Féder / Life / Internment and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Charcoal sketch of woman with kerchief in the Drancy Transit Camp.
context_page_description: Adolphe Féder was a Jewish-Ukrainian painter and illustrator. He moved to France in 1908, where he remained until his deportation and subsequent murder at the hands of the Vichy regime. Féder is best-known today for the artwork he produced of those interned with him in the Drancy internment camp.
context_section_description: When Nazi troops marched across France in 1942, Féder, aged 52, tried to get in contact with the French Resistance but was caught by the Pétain militia. He and his wife were arrested on 10 June 1942 and imprisoned in Cherche-Midi prison; he was transferred to the Drancy internment camp in September 1942.
  In Drancy, Féder continued to paint, creating portraits of those around him such as the other prisoners and guards. His paintings stopped with his deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 13 December 1943 where he was murdered. Féder's wife, Sima Féder, donated Féder's works from inside Drancy to the Ghetto Fighters' House upon her death in 1951.
caption: Before Féder was sent to Auschwitz he painted prisoners and guards in the Drancy internment camp.
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