High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yehuda Bacon (born on July 28, 1929 in Ostrava) is an Israeli artist. (occasional script, especially in German Jehuda Bacon, sometimes Yehuda Bakon.) Yehuda Bacon was born as a son of a Hasidic ( Orthodox Jewish) family. In the fall of 1942, at age 13, Bacon was deported with his family from Ostrava to the Ghetto Theresienstadt, where he shared a room with George Brady. Among others he was part of the children's opera Brundibár. In December 1943, he was deported to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he and other imprisoned children were used to bedazzle the International Committee of the Red Cross in the so-called "family camp". In fact, the "Birkenau Boys" were used for transport work in the entire complex of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. In June 1944, Bacon sees his father murdered in the gas chambers. At this time, his mother and his sister Hanna were deported to the Stutthof concentration camp, where they died a few weeks before liberation.