Who Owns Bruno Schulz?

You might not have heard of Bruno Schulz, the Polish Jewish writer who became the personal artist of a Nazi SS officer during World War Two before his tragic death days before a planned escape, but the story of his artistic heritage is certainly a curious one. When some of Schulz’s famed frescos surfaced in 2001, researchers from the Israeli holocaust memorial were dispatched to the Ukraine with a simple mission: bring them to Jerusalem at all costs. So, who owns Bruno Schulz?

You might not have heard of Bruno Schulz, the Polish Jewish writer who became the personal artist of a Nazi SS officer during World War Two before his tragic death days before a planned escape, but the story of his artistic heritage is certainly a curious one. When some of Schulz’s famed frescos surfaced in 2001, researchers from the Israeli holocaust memorial were dispatched to the Ukraine with a simple mission: bring them to Jerusalem at all costs. So, who owns Bruno Schulz?