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17th July 2025

In her role with the British Red Cross, Doris Zinkeisen was one of the first artists to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after it was liberated by the British Army in 1945. She had been commissioned to record what she saw for the British public, and her painting 'Human Laundry, Belsen: April 1945 (1945, IWM) is one of the most shocking images of war. This is Doris with the painting on her easel in 1945.
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