This painting is from a book I read by Hans Fallada. He was a German writer, who was very sympathic to the Jews. He spent a great deal of his life imprisoned for his views. He did not understand the war, nor what was happening to the Jews. In the painting the woman's husband has been
arrested and she is alone. She waits until it is dark and she feels safe to go out shopping for food.
She put on her coat so she can hide her newly sewn-on Jewish star. This reminds me that
I must paint Fallada's feelings.
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