Closing the issue is a portfolio of riveting drawings by Samuel Varkovitzky (1898–1987), a Jewish banker who posed for nearly two years as a wandering artist during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. The process documented here is a harrowing struggle for survival, which the artist endured, against long odds, through art. Includes journal excerpts.
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Samuel Varkovitzky: Survivor
By Samuel Varkovitzky
Born in Dubno, Poland, Samuel Varkovitzky (1898–1986) worked as an accountant and bank director in Rozyszcze until the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Holocaust by escaping the Lutsk ghetto and posing as a traveling painter in the Ukrainian countryside. After the war, he and the surviving members of his family emigrated to Israel, where he worked for the defense ministry.