"They survived the #Nazis, were confiscated by the #communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded, bound in red tape, by a #museum in the #CzechRepublic. Due to the attentions of an overzealous #Czech customs guard and the vagaries of the #British weather, a happy conclusion had been in doubt to the very end.

But last Thursday a small suitcase filled with 681 #drawings, love #letters, #poems and #manuscripts created by the #Jewish #artist and #poet #PeterKien in the #Theresienstadt ghetto in #German-occupied #Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1944 finally made a blustery landing at Heathrow.

From there, the treasures were transported to their new home: the Wiener #Holocaust #Library in central #London, where #JudyKing, 66, was anxiously waiting for them. She was keeping a promise she had made to her mother, #HelgaWolfenstein, beside her deathbed in 2003."

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/26/jewish-art-letters-saved-from-nazis-peter-kien