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In April 1945, Taylor's unit was among the first troops to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Taylor painted a number of watercolours at the camp. Initially, his compositions showed massed piles of bodies but increasingly he turned to depicting individual survivors. The
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in 1969, he became a deputy director of that institution. He held that post until his retirement in 1971. In 1965 Taylor completed a large mosaic mural for an outside wall of the
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