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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/auschwitz-exhibits-jewish-ex-prisoners-depictions-of-the-camp/
Auschwitz Exhibits Jewish Ex-Prisoner's Depictions of the Camp
(AFP-Times of Israel) Damien Simonart - The Auschwitz museum unveiled Tuesday an exhibition of the art of David Olere, a survivor of the World War II Nazi death camp who detailed his experiences in the gas chambers on canvas after the conflict. Deported by the Nazis from France to Auschwitz in 1943, Olere was forced to work in the camp's Sonderkommando, a special unit that assisted in the operation of the crematoria and gas chambers. "This unique collection of works is...the only iconographic source of those events, performed from the perspective of a first-hand witness," said Agnieszka Sieradzka, an art historian at the Auschwitz museum. One million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945.