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When his shop in Poland was seized in 1942, Edmund Monsiel became convinced that the Nazis were going to come and arrest him and hid in the windowless attic of his brother’s house in Lublin. Under these conditions he began to draw by candlelight on small scraps of paper. He stayed in the attic for twenty years until his death in 1967. After his death about 500 small and conscientiously made drawings were found.
Rosemarie Koczÿ was born in 1939 near Recklinghausen, Germany. She was deported with her family in 1942 and survived two concentration camps, Traunstein, near Dachau and Ottenhausen, near Struthof. "I think of those that were buried like beasts. I mourn those who had the right to be preserved in memory and who have never been mourned, never been buried with dignity. With my works I am returning to them that memory and that dignity. That’s why I write on the back of my drawings: ‘Je vous tisse un linceau,’ I am weaving you a shroud."
Rosemarie Koczÿ was born in 1939 near Recklinghausen, Germany. She was deported with her family in 1942 and survived two concentration camps, Traunstein, near Dachau and Ottenhausen, near Struthof. "I think of those that were buried like beasts. I mourn those who had the right to be preserved in memory and who have never been mourned, never been buried with dignity. With my works I am returning to them that memory and that dignity. That’s why I write on the back of my drawings: ‘Je vous tisse un linceau,’ I am weaving you a shroud."