Judy Cassab: Diaries

Fifty years from the diaries of the eminent artist begin in April 1944 with the deportation of her family from Budapest to Auschwitz and her struggle to survive with an assumed identity, and continue with the story of her life in Australia. With photographs, including thirty two colour reproductions of her paintings.

518 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.  #010622  First Edition.

Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter.

Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Hungarian parents. She began painting at twelve years old and began studying at the Academy of Art in Prague in 1938 but was forced to flee the German occupation in 1939.^[1] Cassab worked in a factory under an assumed name and put her artistic skills to use after hours forging papers and passports.^[2]

Her husband, Jancsi Kampfner, was put in a forced labour camp by the Nazis in World War II, and returned to Hungary in 1944.^[1]

Cassab, her husband and two sons emigrated to Australia in 1951 and settled in Sydney.^[2] Cassab became an Australian citizen in 1957.^[2]

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