![]() ![]() In August 1944, Esther was deported to Leibisch, and liberated by the Soviet Army on January 21, 1945. Her family members were sent to Auschwitz and murdered. Esther was sent to Stutthof concentration camp, where she continued to draw. She also, at the request of the Jewish Council, dedicated herself to recording the daily life of the residents. She was confined to the ghetto and had to create portraits and paintings for the Germans. She was visiting her sister in Kovno in summer 1941 when it was occupied by Germany. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. It depicts a large crowd with Star of David badges holding suitcases and gathering in a street. Brief Narrative Etching of people awaiting deportation from Kovno Ghetto created in 1957 from a 1957 drawing by Esther Lurie reconstructing a work she drew in 1943 while imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. ![]()
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