The donation includes five sculptures by Paul Roth and a painting by his brother André, the museum said.
Three of Paul Roth’s sculptures—The Scream, The Survivor and Pitié!/Mercy!—are expressive, naturalistic depictions of emaciated human figures marked by suffering and despair.
The remaining two, untitled, portray a man standing against a wall with a chest wound and hands reaching out from the ground, according to museum spokesman Paweł Sawicki.
André Roth’s painting Selection or Elimination depicts SS men conducting a prisoner selection inside a camp barracks.
The works were donated by Paul’s children, Claudine and Laurent Roth, and André’s son, Claude Roth.
The Roth twins were born in 1924 in Lyon. They were prisoners of Auschwitz III-Monowitz until the camp’s evacuation. During the Death March they were transferred to Buchenwald, where they were liberated.
After the war, Paul became a doctor and sculptor, while André ran the family business before turning to painting.
In a 1980 statement, Paul said he and his brother had sought in art "a balm that allowed us, for a moment, to set aside the ugliness and disgrace of deportation."
André died in 2004, and Paul in 2023.
Agnieszka Sieradzka, curator of the Auschwitz Museum Art Collection, called the donation an "extraordinary gift" that "deepens our understanding of the lives of those deported to Auschwitz and enriches our collection with works of immense artistic power."
More than 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz, along with Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others.
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Source: auschwitz.org