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CHARLOTTE SALOMON COLORS OF THE SOUL GN

(W) Julian Frey (A) Lucas Varela (CA) Lucas Varela

Charlotte Salomon (Berlin, April 16, 1917 - Auschwitz, October, 10 1943) was a young Jewish artist from a prosperous family whose mother committed suicide when she was just nine-years-old. In 1938, increasing anti-semitic policies caused her to escape to the south of France to live with her grandparents. She began painting what became over 1000 gouaches consisting of 769 of the paintings depicting a somewhat fantastical autobiography preserving main elements of her life. In 1943 she handed the work over to the local doctor with the wish that he "Keep this safe, it is my whole life." By September she was transported to the Auschwitz gas chambers when five months pregnant.

MICHIGAN ON THE TRAIL OF THE WAR BRIDE HC

(W) Julian Frey (A) Lucas Varela (CA) Lucas Varela

November 1944, Paris, France. G.I. John arrives in France as a mechanic in the Military Railway Service. He meets and falls in love with a young French woman, Odette, working in a corner café after her family business was destroyed. He is posted to Germany and returns a year later when his proposal of marriage is accepted and they decide to go to the US, much to her family's chagrin.  But Odette isn't allowed to travel to the US together with her husband but is shipped instead to the Philip Morris Camp in Le Havre before boarding the MS Vulcania for the trip to the States with some of the many other War Brides.