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I hardly dare say it, but for a painter, the beauty of it was incredible.

It was absolutely necessary to reproduce, represent and show it in order to preserve it for the future.

These are the words of an artist who survived the horrors of being held at Dachau, a concentration camp in

1944 and today's great life. His name was Zoran Musich. He began to draw in

secret whenever he had the chance on scraps of paper whatever came to hand

He sketched the images of corpses

After surviving the concentration camp he said,

I'm not trying to make a rhetorical statement when I paint the corpses.

There's no point in protesting.

It's something that happened.

It would have been better if it hadn't happened at all, but it did.

For me, it's a subject I have to paint.

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