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was provided by the
Germans. However Grant's mother Anna wasn't protected and she was scheduled to be sent "East" three times and each time Grant managed to secure her release from the train. At the time nobody in the camp knew what "East" meant. However on the fourth time in December 1943, her mother was sent to a cattle wagon on the
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garrison. When they left, the first Jewish folk to arrive along with Grant and her mother, lived in the old army barracks. While there, Grant worked in the youth gardens, where young girls and boys worked, which gave her and her mother access to better food. This gave Grant a level of protection that
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operation. They lived there for several years. In
November 1945 her drawings were publicly displayed in a Gothenburg exhibition. Through a friend from Gothenburg, who went to live in Glasgow, Grant met and began to correspond with Jaakov Horst Grodszinksy, a German refugee who lodged with the
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that depicts first-hand some of the atrocities in the Nazi concentration camps that she witnessed. At the same time, the Museum filmed an interview about her life and published a memoir "I Knew I Was
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guards who told her them to strip and march past an official who sorted them by sending them to a left or right column. One column that contained children, the elderly and the infirm, who were immediately murdered in the
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and Grant was unable to get her released. Grant left all her paintings behind and took a separate wagon on the train. Grant was in
Theresienstadt for about 18 months When they finally arrived, they found they were in
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Grant and her mother arrived during a freezing cold night and she was in shock as she watched prisoners in striped uniforms remove the dead bodies from the cattle wagons. New arrivals were processed by the
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Mengele. Czech artist Dina Gottliebová was assigned the insalubrious task of painting prisoners who had been the subject of genetic experimentation.
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Scotland, for almost 50 years they lay in a trunk in her home. In 2002, she decided to show her work in a permanent exhibit at
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Studio of Art and
Graphic Design, against considerable hostility from her father, who preferred that she went to university. The studio had an international reputation and was known for its
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Häftlingszeichnungen aus dem
Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen : eine Sonderausstellung der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen
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Jaakov
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In the autumn of 1951, Marianne married Jack Grant (born Jaakov Horst Grodszinksy), a German Jewish refugee living in Glasgow. Grodszinksy's family came from
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prepared an education pack that was based on the life experiences of Grant. It was distributed to every secondary school in Scotland. During the 2003
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in Jerusalem, but after her father's death, Grant decided to stay with her mother. During that period she volunteered with the
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SS guard asked Grant to create an oil painting for his wife and draw books for his children. When she was ill with
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family. In the summer of 1951 Grodszinksy travelled to Sweden to meet Grant as part of a
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celebrated in Edinburgh, Grant's pictures were displayed for a second time at the
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Painting for my life : the Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant
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1062:. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 48.
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of September 1938, Germany annexed the German-majority populated
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organisation in Prague. El Al was a Czech alternative to the
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for medical treatment and recuperation, with the help of the
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The book title was later shortened to "Painting for My Life"
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848:"The strange tale of the Prague English Grammar School"
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Prague in black : Nazi rule and Czech nationalism
1012:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 376.
242:. His family sent him to the UK prior to the start of
191:. 22 members of Grant's family died in the Holocaust.
1255:. Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
1236:(in German). Hannover: Die Zentrale. pp. 40–41.
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987:. Berghahn Books. p. 232.
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331:. In June 1939,
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