The paintings of Ceija Stojka, dabbed from decades-old memories in oil and acrylic, often lack titles. He was murdered at Hartheim euthanasia centre in 1942, and Stojka, her mother and her five siblings were deported to Auschwitz the following year. Stojka clung to life in Bergen-Belsen by eating plants and tree sap as she waited, among the corpses, for the camp to be liberated. “Within the family, she hardly ever talked about the experiences,” says her son, Hojda, who grew up in Allied-occupied Vienna. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man looks at the work ‘Sad Land’ exhibited at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2019 13:30 UTC