09-03-2018 21:44 via seattletimes.com

Kalman Aron, whose art spared him in the Holocaust, dies at 93

As a teen Aron survived seven Nazi concentration camps by swapping sketches of his captors and their families for scraps of food. He lived to become a prominent American portraitist, commissioned by the likes of Ronald Reagan, André Previn and Henry Miller.
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