oil on linen
116cm x 89cm
2013

SOLD
This painting is based on one of the only photos of my great grandmother who I’m named after. She ran a small convenient store in a small village in Polonia. During the first years of World War 2, Jews were only allowed to consume certain products and someone in the village told the S.S. that she had products that were forbidden in her store. My great grandmother heard that they were coming to arrest her and knew that my grandmother was at home. She ran home to protect her daughter and was arrested and sent to Auchwitz. My grandmother lived her whole life with guilt that her mother was caught because of her.