Samuel Bak
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Samuel Bak is an American-Jewish painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States.
Portrait of Samuel Bak in his Paris studio in 1983
Bak in his Massachusetts studio
The Family, oil on canvas, 1974
Abraham Sutzkever
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Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."
Samuel Bak
…24, 1941, Bak and his family were forced to move into the ghetto. At the age of nine, he held his first exhibition inside the ghetto. In 1943 the poets Avrom Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczerginski invited the young Bak to participate in an exhibition organized in the ghetto. Sensing that their end is near, the poets decide…
Sutzkever in 1950
Abraham Sutzkever, 1962