Beda with his mother Amalie. Photo, around 1950. L. Kramar collection, Lund.

Shlomo, gardener, painter and single father of four children kept his father’s art at home and in his studio; the rest I found in different people’s houses and in archives. This albeit rewarding exercise proved to be a marathon task compared with the simplicity of recovering Leo Mayer’s watercolor. Before being taken from Terezin to Auschwitz, Leo had left all his things with his mother Amalie, who survived Terezin. Beda visited Amalie in Hodonin shortly before her death and she gave him Leo’s drawing, which he, in turn, donated to Beit Terezin archives at kibbutz Givat Haim.

           
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