Print by survivor artist David L. Bloch

German Jewish artist David Ludwig Bloch was born in Floss, Germany in 1910. He was orphaned while still a baby, and lost his hearing soon after due to meningitis. He attended schools for the deaf until age 15 and learned to lipread. He was accepted to art school in Munich, but was expelled in 1938 due to the exclusion laws. During Kristallnacht, Bloch was arrested in his home and sent to Dachau. He was released a month later after a family member in the United States paid for his travel from Munich to Venice and then Shanghai. Bloch taught art in Shanghai, where he met his wife Lilly, a Chinese woman who was also deaf. They eventually immigrated to the U.S. in 1949, where he continued his art career and settled in Mt. Vernon, NY. He became a lithographic artist and designed the White House China for Lady Bird Johnson. In 1975 he retired and began to create art concerning the Holocaust.