A Panel on Art During the Holocaust Draws Crowds at the San Diego Comic-Con
Amidst all the Hollywood hubbub at the San Diego Comic-Con this past week, a low-key panel on Thursday drew a packed audience. Tucked away in a room that held only 280 people and sandwiched between events featuring A-list celebrities and exclusive movie previews, “Art During the Holocaust” offered some meaningful counter-programming to attendees.
The crowd heard a firsthand account of horrid Nazi drawings from survivor Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax. The 90-year-old, who had been a prisoner at three different camps, was assisted by her daughter, author Sandra Scheller. Together they presented cartoons and illustrations from anti-Semitic German newspaper Der Stürmer. “We were shocked and surprised by the propaganda and the way Jewish persons were portrayed,” she said. “I remember being scared. … It was something we could not run away from.”
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