Doris Zinkeisen was the first artist to enter the notorious Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp after it was liberated on 15 April 1945. She would have witnessed the 13000 unburied bodies and around 60000 inmates,most acutely sick and starving. As an artist, she had been commissioned to record what she saw for the British public. In […]The post Doris Zinkeisen: frontline artist who painted the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp appeared first on British Red Cross - Blog.
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