Exhibition depicting death camp survivor’s trauma opens at Auschwitz Memorial in Poland

Works by David Olere, a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII, are on exhibit at the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland. Photo: Reuters

David Olere, a former Auschwitz prisoner who helped dispose of bodies at the Nazi death camp, depicted his trauma of the horrors he witnessed in haunting drawings and paintings.

Now more than 80 of those artworks have gone on display at an exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial in Oswiecim, Poland.