"Hadasa Bau shows a copy of the 'Swiatija' book by her father..."

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14 February 2020

Hadasa Bau shows a copy of the 'Swiatija' book by her father Joseph Bau, inside 'Joseph Bau house' Museum in Tel Aviv. Joseph Bau was a Polish-Israeli artist, philosopher, inventor, animator, comedian, commercial creator, copy-writer, photographer and poet. He trained as a graphic artist at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. During WW2 he was transferred to the Plaszow concentration camp, where he met and secretly married Rebecca Tennenbaum. Their story inspired Steven Spielberg and their wedding is shown in Spielberg movie 'Schindler's List'. Later, Josef was transferred to Gross-Rosen concentration camp and then to Schindler's camp where he stayed until the end of the war, while Rebecca was sent to Auschwitz. Both survived and after the war, Josef reunited with his wife, finished his Art degree in Krakow, then in 1950, they immigrated to Israel, where Joseph worked as a graphic artist at the Brandwein Institute in Haifa and for the government of Israel. His paintings and drawings have been listed by Sotheby's as significant contributions to the art of the Holocaust. On Tuesday, 11 February 2020, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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