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
Main Author	Leszkowicz, Dagmara
Format	Newspaper Article
Language	English
Published	Windsor, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 21.02.2012
Subjects	Nazi era KRAKOW
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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.