Witnessing the Suffering of Others in Watercolor and Pencil : Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz’s Holocaust Art Exhibited in Sweden, 1945-46
In the Holocaust’s immediate aftermath (1945–1946), a small gallery in Lund, Sweden exhibited the paintings and drawings of Polish artist Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz, which depicted her former fellow inmates in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. This exhibit and subsequent exhibitions elsewhere in Sweden marked rare instances of early postwar Holocaust art displayed in a country that had been relat
