Josette Molland, who died at 100 in France on Feb. 17, was a young member of the French Resistance during World War II when she was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Nazi forced-labor camps for women.
Later, after her return to France, she would speak to students about her experiences.
In her 80s, however, worrying that her story wasn’t getting through to them, she concluded that telling them of her camp life was not enough.
So she set about painting, from painful memory, scenes of the harsh incarceration that she and many other female inmates suffered.
Here are five of them, with the text she wrote to accompany them.
Persons:
Josette Molland
Organizations:
Nazi
Locations:
France