78 Artists Magazine April 2020
Janet Boltax
Montclair, New Jersey
janetboltaxart.comArno
oil on canvas, 36x36“Arno is part of my series that includes 25 portraits of people aged 90 to 104
plus my interviews with each person about their lives and how they’ve dealt with
aging. Arno, who died recently, was a Holocaust survivor. He and his brother
were separated from their family in Germany as part of the Kindertransport
rescue eff ort. His brother was apprehended and sent to Auschwitz. An elderly
couple in Holland hid Arno in a small room in a row house for two years.”