Ink drawing by Esther Lurie of Michlean Amir

Ink drawing by Esther Lurie of Michlean Amir 

Ink drawing by Esther Lurie of Michlean Amir 

overall: Height: 15.940 inches (40.488 cm) | Width: 15.690 inches (39.853 cm) 

Portrait drawn by Esther Lurie, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951. Michlean Amir met Esther Lurie in the apartment of her grandmother’s friend, the historian Nellie Schur. Dr Schur was working on a project to create maps of the new state of Israel with the cartographer, Joseph Shapiro, who was Lurie's husband. Lurie offered to do her portrait. Esther Lurie was a professionally trained artist whose drawings and sketches, done from 1941-1944, while she was imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and Stutthof concentration camp, were published in 1945, providing eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust.