A brush with death: An artist in the death camps

In this memoir, Wyszogrod describes in detail the time he spent in the Warsaw ghetto; his work as an artist for various Luftwaffe personnel at the Warsaw military airport; his experiences at the Budzyn concentration camp, where he was assigned to decorate the living quarters of the SS and to produce pornographic drawings at an orgiastic Octoberfest; his removal to Plaszow and his subsequent liberation at Theresienstadt