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1 " *CZARNECKI, JOSEPH P.* Art was not a cultural frivolity to the inmates of Auschwitz; it literally kept their spirits alive. It was self-expression in the teeth of the annihilation of the self. It was an expresison of the the need to retain psychological coherance in a malebolent ambience whose essential purpose was the destruction of the psyche of its inahabitants. The words 'I am' written on a wall are the epitaph of someone about to die....Picasso said that 'painting is an instrument of war to be waged against brutality and darkness. "
― Joseph p. Czarnecki
