Edith Kiss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian sculptor and painter
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Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
About Edith Kiss
- Edith Bán Kiss, also Edit, née Rott (1905–1966) was a Hungarian sculptor and painter.
- In the autumn of 1944, together with thousands of other Hungarian Jewish women, she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany.
- She was then transferred to the Daimler-Benz factory at Ludwigsfelde where she was forced to work on aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe.
- Shortly after her release at the end of the war, she illustrated her experiences of concentration camps with 30 gouache sketches which were exhibited in Budapest in late 1945.
- There was however little recognition of her work in the West.
- As a result, following the death of her husband she was driven to suicide in Paris in 1966.
- In 1992, her "Deportation" series was exhibited in Berlin, Paris and Budapest.
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