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(New York Jewish Week) - While hiding from the Nazis, the German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon began a series of autobiographical paintings and texts with a painfully simple description of her aunt, and namesake's, suicide: "Scene 1: 1913. One November day, a young girl named Charlotte Knarre leaves her parents' home and jumps into the water." Intense and memorable, that image is the launching point for "Life? or Theatre?", a series of hundreds of gouaches Salomon made between 1940 and 1942....