‘I will finish your work’: one woman’s fight for the Jewish art and letters her mother saved from the Nazis
Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have a new home in the UK, thanks to Judy KingThey survived the Nazis but were confiscated by the communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded and bound in red tape by a museum in the Czech...
<p>Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have a new home in the UK, thanks to Judy King</p><p>They survived the Nazis but were confiscated by the communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded and bound in red tape by a museum in the Czech Republic.</p><p>Indeed, 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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/26/jewish-art-letters-saved-from-nazis-peter-kien">Continue reading...</a>
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