'They were survivors': the Jewish cartoonists who fled the Nazis
‘They were survivors’: the Jewish cartoonists who fled the Nazis Nadja Sayej In 1938, Nazi troops invaded Austria, subsuming the country into the Third Reich in an event known as the “Anschluss”, bringing official antisemitism, along with political violence, to the small, German-speaking nation underneath Germany. A new exhibition in New York features artworks by three Jewish artists who fled Vienna during the Anschluss, survived and flourished as commercial artists. Armed with their pens, they used their wit, talent and resilience. Their best works are on view in a gr...
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