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Dachau survivor's art show

February 23, 2012 13:50

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

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The artwork of one of the last surviving prisoners interned in Dachau has gone on display at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.

Ernst Eisenmayer, who is 92, has worked as a sculptor and painter since the end of the Second World War.

Mr Eisenmayer, who was born in Vienna, was sent to prison at the age of 18 before the war began when the Nazis caught him trying to flee to Switzerland.

He was interned in Dachau for six months, escaping in 1939 because of the intervention of Oxford's Professor J L Brierly, who assisted a number of Jewish refugees.

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