Chaim Kaliski. “Jim d’Etterbeek”

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

Here is an exhibition of about a hundred ink drawings extracted from a monumental work on the Occupation in Brussels, consisting of more than five thousand drawings by Chaïm-Charles Kaliski (1929-2015), a singular being whose existence was forever marked by the Shoah.\n\nDouble graphic by the artist Chaïm Kaliski (1929-2015), Jim d’Etterbeek is the title of this work drawn on the Occupation in Brussels.\nThe eldest of four children, Chaïm Kaliski was born in Brussels in 1929 into a Polish Jewish family. His father, Abraham, was a leather goods dealer, his mother, Fradla, a dressmaker. The occ…