Famed Holocaust Artist, Survivor Allegedly a Fake

Rosemarie Koczy's drawings displayed at the Guggenheim and the World Holocaust Remembrance Center are haunting—not at all surprising given that Koczy described them as "burials for those I saw die" in concentration camps as a child. 

And yet the authenticity of that statement, and of the German-born American artist's greater tale of Holocaust survival, is now being called into question. Archivists in Recklinghausen, Germany, where the late Koczy was born in 1939, say they've uncovered documents showing Koczy's family was Roman Catholic, not Jewish, per the New York Times

Koczy's surname is also missing from records of residents taken to camps. What's more, a concentration camp in which Koczy said she was held was actually "exclusively for men," archivist Matthias Kordes tells Deutsche Welle.

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