''Eyewitness'' is a 1999 American

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documentary film directed by

Bert Van Bork Bert Van Bork (1928–October 29, 2014) was a German-born producer, director, cinematographer, still photographer, painter, and printer. He studied fine arts in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, and later moved to Chicago where he shot and directed in ...

. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The explored the lives of three artists forced to work in secret while living in

Nazi death camps Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (german: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (), or killing centers (), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust. The v ...

Jan Komski Jan Baraś-Komski (February 3, 1915, Bircza, Bircza, Przemyśl County, Poland – July 20, 2002, Arlington County, Virginia) was a Polish Painting, painter. He studied painting, anatomy, and art history at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, K ...

Dinah Gottliebova Annemarie Dina Babbitt (née Gottliebová; January 21, 1923 – July 29, 2009) was an artist and Holocaust survivor. A naturalized U.S. citizen, she resided in Santa Cruz, California. As Dina Gottliebová, she was imprisoned at Auschwitz concen ...

and

Felix Nussbaum Felix Nussbaum (December 11, 1904 – August 9, 1944) was a German Jews, German-Jewish surrealist Painting, painter. Nussbaum’s work gives insights into the essence of one person among the victims of the Holocaust. Early life and education N ...

, and who witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust.

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