Chopin portrait hung in Auschwitz; Painting found in professor's home
Painted in 1943 by Auschwitz prisoner and Polish artist Mieczyslaw Koscielniak, the portrait was one of a series of pictures created as part of a public-relations campaign to obscure the treatment of inmates at the World War Two-era death camp where German Nazis killed some 1.5 million people.
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Published in | Windsor star |
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Format | Newspaper Article |
Language | English |
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Windsor, Ont
Postmedia Network Inc
21.02.2012
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Summary: | Painted in 1943 by Auschwitz prisoner and Polish artist Mieczyslaw Koscielniak, the portrait was one of a series of pictures created as part of a public-relations campaign to obscure the treatment of inmates at the World War Two-era death camp where German Nazis killed some 1.5 million people. |
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