A child survives in Drohobycz: the story behind Alicia Melamed Adam's paintings

For Alicia Melamed Adams painting her lost family was a means to visually represent and come to terms with trauma and loss two decades after the events themselves. She was the only survivor from her family and she survived by marrying, at fifteen, the son of a family who manufactured uniforms for the occupying German forces. For her painting was a private form of remembering.