Pnina Granirer (born April 11, 1935 in

Brăila Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila. According to the 2011 Romanian census there were 180,302 pe ...

, Romania) is a Romanian-born Canadian painter and writer.

Life

In 1944, as a child, Granirer witnessed the transport ready to take her and other Romanian Jews to the

extermination 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 ...

. Her life was saved when the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive saw the Red Army drove out Nazi German forces. After World War II, Granirer's family were "sold" to Israel by the Romanian government. She emigrated to Israel, where she attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. After completing her degree, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1965.

Career

Her works have been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. Granirer founded the Artists in Our Midst, the first art walk in Vancouver, in 1993. Her book, ''Light within the Shadows; A Painter's Memoir'', was published in May 2017.

Selected exhibitions

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References

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Author question and answer: Pnina Granirer talks Light Within the Shadows

Artists in Our Midst
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