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#JosefNassy

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Sim Barr<p>Part III - Over the next 3 years, with the help of the Red Cross, Nassy was provided with art supplies, allowing him to create more than 200 paintings + drawings that would depict life in the camps.<br />Liberated in 1945, Nassy passed away in 1976</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/josefnassy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>josefnassy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/holocaustsurvivor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>holocaustsurvivor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/wwii" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wwii</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/wwiiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wwiiart</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blackhistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blackhistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/artworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artworld</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/afrojewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>afrojewish</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>holocaust</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/holocaustart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>holocaustart</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blackartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blackartist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/internmentcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>internmentcamp</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/concentrationcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>concentrationcamp</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/artofwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artofwar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/africanamericanart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>africanamericanart</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/africanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>africanamerican</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/africanamericanhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>africanamericanhistory</span></a></p>
Sim Barr<p>Part II - In 1934, Nassy decided to study painting. He was admitted to an academy of fine arts in Brussels. In 1939, he married a Belgian + began earning a living as a portrait <a href="https://c.im/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artist</span></a>. The Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, but Nassy + his wife did not leave. After the USA entered the war, Nassy was arrested as an enemy national in German-occupied Belgium. He spent the rest of the war in an <a href="https://c.im/tags/internmentcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>internmentcamp</span></a> in Germany<br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/josefnassy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>josefnassy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blackhistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blackhistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/artworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artworld</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/afrojewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>afrojewish</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>holocaust</span></a></p>
Sim Barr<p>Part I - <a href="https://c.im/tags/JosefNassy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JosefNassy</span></a> was an Afro-Jewish <a href="https://c.im/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artist</span></a> + <a href="https://c.im/tags/Holocausttsurvivor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Holocausttsurvivor</span></a> born in 1904 in Surinam. His father was of Jewish descent + his mother Surinamese, of African descent. In 1928 Nassy received work in Europe for Warner Brothers but had to prove he was a US citizen. He pretended to be born in San Francisco prior to the 1899 earthquake, when records had been destroyed, + the ruse worked.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blackhistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blackhistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/artworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artworld</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/afrojewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>afrojewish</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>holocaust</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/holocaustart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>holocaustart</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blackartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blackartist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/africanamericanart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>africanamericanart</span></a></p>
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