In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto, the American Jewish Congress last night opened an exhibit of the works of Luba Gurdus, noted Israeli artist who is a survivor of the Nazi occupation of Poland. The exhibit, which will be on view for one month, at the Stephen Wise Congress House, contains 22 paintings and drawings of the ghetto and of Jewish life in Poland under the Nazis.
Born in Poland, Miss Gurdus studied at Lausanne and the academies of Berlin and Warsaw. Trapped in Poland during the war, she escaped from a Nazi collection center, was captured and imprisoned in Maldenek and finally remained in hiding from 1943 until the end of the Nazi occupation in Poland. After the war, Miss Gurdus became a citizen of Israel and exhibited a series of intense and vivid drawings in gallery in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Her works were first exhibited at a show held simultaneously in two New York galleries.
At a reception held at Congress House to mark the opening of the exhibit, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, historian and outstanding authority on Polish Jewry and former president of the American Federation of Polish Jews, spoke on the heroism of the Warsaw Ghetto martyrs.
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