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Mirka Mora: From Holocaust survivor to the matriarch of Melbourne’s art scene, an incredible life on display in exhibition – ABC News
A new exhibition at Melbourne’s Jewish Museum explores the painful personal story of Mirka Mora, a woman who transformed Australia’s art scene with her colourful…
Cherubs, angels, dewy wide-eyed faces; birds, snakes, and fantastical animal-human hybrids all rendered in warm colours and bold lines. Love, light, joy. These are the hallmarks of Australian artist Mirka Mora.
But underneath that beauty lies Mora’s painful personal story, and a childhood that came to an abrupt end in 1942, when the French-born Jewish 14-year-old, her mother and her two sisters were sent to the Pithiviers internment camp, a temporary location before deportation to Nazi death camps.
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