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London, Piatkus: 1971
At 22 years of age, and a young Czech artist, Kantor began his imprisonment in three Nazi concentration camps: Terezin, Auschwitz and Schwarzheide. He determined that he would not let those horrible times escape his artist's brush. This wonderful book is the record he kept: some 160 drawings, drawn in the two months following his liberation. He said, "It was not so much that I wanted to draw my own story, but rather to capture this extraordinary place, so that I could show the world something of it IF and WHEN I was ever free." This is a very moving account. After his rele...
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