Delighted, still, by this life on earth
When he was a child, the artist Samuel Bak lived in the Vilna Ghetto, established by the Nazis in 1941 in what is now Vilnius, Lithuania. Out of the tens of thousands of Jews who lived there, only a few hundred survived. Bak grew up to become a tireless painter of Holocaust themes. His latest undertaking, at Pucker Gallery, is ...