Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have a new home in the UK, thanks to Judy King
They survived the Nazis but were confiscated by the communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded and bound in red tape by a museum in the Czech Republic.
Indeed, due to the attentions of an overzealous Czech customs guard and the vagaries of the British weather, a happy conclusion had been in doubt to the very end.
But last Thursday, a small suitcase filled with 681 drawings, love letters, poems and manuscripts created by the Jewish artist and poet Peter Kien in the Theresienstadt ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1944 finally made a blustery landing at Heathrow.
From there, the treasures were transported to their new home: the Wiener Holocaust Library in central London, where Judy King, 66, was anxiously waiting for them.
