dave on Nostr: Rosemarie Koczy was a German artist who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, stating ...

Rosemarie Koczy was a German artist who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, stating that she had been in two concentration camps. Her works were in the permanent collections of several prestigious museums, including the Guggenheim in New York and Yad Vashem in Israel. However, experts have raised questions about the authenticity of her story after investigating her background. Koczy's birth certificate indicates that her parents and grandparents were Catholics, not Hungarian Jews, which contradicts her claim. Her family's name was also missing from the list of Jews deported from Recklinghausen, where she was born. Furthermore, the Traunstein concentration camp, where Koczy said she was imprisoned as a child, was exclusively for men. Despite doubts raised over her story, Yad Vashem stated that they would retain her works as they were created in response to the Holocaust and were relevant to their collection.