Chaïm Kaliski. 'Jim d’Etterbeek'

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, 71 Rue du Temple

Exhibition of around a hundred ink drawings drawn from a monumental work on the Occupation in Brussels, consisting of more than five thousand drawings by Chaïm-Charles Kaliski (1929-2015), a singular figure whose life was forever marked by the Shoah. The artist Chaïm Kaliski’s double graphic, Jim d’Etterbeek, is the title of this drawing work on the Occupation in Brussels. Born in Brussels in 1929 into a Polish Jewish family, Kaliski’s life centers on survival and trauma, and from 1989, on his sister Sarah’s advice, he began to draw their story, producing thousands of drawings over eighteen y…