1. Gela Seksztajn is known mostly for her portraits and other paintings hidden within the Ringelblum Archive, in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
12 Facts About Gela Seksztajn
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Gela Seksztajn's father was a cobbler, and her mother died in 1918.
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Gela Seksztajn spent about 13 years in Krakow; according to her own testimony, she studied in the academy for two years, but her name was not recorded in any of the enrollment lists of the school's archives.
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Gela Seksztajn was a member of the Association of Jewish Artists, and the Jewish Society of Fine Arts, both in Warsaw.
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Gela Seksztajn participated in several exhibitions and received good reviews during these years.
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Just before the ghetto was sealed off in that year, Gela Seksztajn gave birth to her daughter, Margalit.
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Gela Seksztajn held drawing classes in the ghetto, and mounted small exhibits of her students' works.
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Gela Seksztajn probably participated in making the costumes for a children's show entitled "The Seasons" in 1942.
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Gela Seksztajn was awarded a prize, for her work with children, by the Judenrat chairman Adam Czerniakow.
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Gela Seksztajn continued to paint during her ghetto years, drawing portraits such as children in the soup kitchen, her daughter, her husband, and her friends writers.
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The exact date of Gela Seksztajn's death is unknown, but it is believed she died during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Gela Seksztajn is mentioned in Izrael Lichtenstejn's will from 1943, cited in Paul Auster's book, The Invention of Solitude.