They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich

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PLATE 1 SaraYampolsky, sitting for me shortly before she and her brother Simon were deported in summer 1942. Oil. (Museum of Deportation and Resistance, Mechelen.) PLATE 3 TheTwo Seashells (view of the courtyard from the painters’ workshop ). My brushes and two seashells on the window sill. Oil. Irene Awret. (Museum of Deportation and Resistance, Mechelen) Till Eulenspiegel, Marionette by Lon Landau. (Museum of Deportation and Resistance, Mechelen) PLATE 2 PLATE 4 Redhaired Girl in a Green Coat. Oil. Irene Awret. (Museum of Deportation and Resistance, Mechelen) PLATE 5 Playing Cards (the porters’ dormitory).Watercolor. Azriel Awret. (Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, Naharia, Israel) PLATE 7 The painter Kopel Simelovitz by Azriel Awret.Watercolor. (YadVashem, Jerusalem, Israel) Distribution of packages in the snow by Lon Landau. Gouache. (Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel) PLATE 6 PLATE 8 TheTrain Is Coming! Watercolor. Irene Awret. (Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel) PLATE 10 Napoléon.Watercolor. Irene Awret. (Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel) Arnold Dobruszkes, the Electrician. Oil. Irene Awret. (Courtesy Evi FastagDobruszkes , Strasbourg, France) PLATE 9 PLATE 12 Pieteke Anger, born in the camp. Oil. Irene Awret. (Museum of Deportation and Resistance, Mechelen) The youngest brother Ehrentreu. Oil. Irene Awret. (Museum of Deportation and Resistance, Mechelen) PLATE 11 ...