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Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life

Pamela Reitman
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exile in France
female suicide legacy
gouaches
historical fiction
Holocaust survival
internment camps
Jewish Historical Museum
Jewish resilience
Joods Museum
legacy of mental illness
Life? Or Theatre?
loss of mother
modernist painting
Nazi Germany
overcoming trauma
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psychological battle
quest for identity
race against time
struggle against destiny
transformation through art
Vichy regime
World War II

Product details

  • ISBN 9781960573919
  • Dimensions: 135 x 214mm
  • Publication Date: 29 May 2025
  • Publisher: Sibylline Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life

Inspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler’s rise to power in 1938, Charlotte’s first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent from Berlin into exile with her grandparents.

When Charlotte’s grandmother leaps to her death, her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret, a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather’s insistence that suicide, not art, is her destiny too.

Haunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work “Life? Or Theater?” and get it into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.
About Pamela Reitman
Pamela Reitman is an award-winning writer with numerous publications in literary journals, news outlets, and magazines. She has a B.A cum laude in English from Columbia and an MPH from the University of California Berkeley. She is retired from a career in public health and community service aimed at reducing the stigma of mental illness. Ms. Reitman was a past Director of Makor Or: A Jewish Meditation Center in San Francisco. She is lay ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition. She lives in Healdsburg, California with her husband.

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