Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life

A Novel

by Pamela Reitman

Historical Fiction | Trade paper $22 | ISBN: 9781960573919

Inspired by the life and work of a young German-Jewish art student...

When Charlotte Salomon attends the Berlin Art Academy, her First Place art contest prize is denied because she is a Jew, and following that humiliation, her enrollment is annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent from Berlin into exile on the Cote d’Azur, where she embarks on the making of her masterpiece, “Life? Or Theater?” Haunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, alone and without identity papers, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work and get it into the hands of safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.

Praise for Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life

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“Pamela Reitman has created a gorgeous, haunting portrait of a willful young Jewish woman who paints to save her life, to remember everything in images and words, as Nazi jackboots approach.”

—Parul Kapur, author of Inside the Mirror

“The story of Charlotte Salomon is perhaps the most dramatic Holocaust narrative we know. Based on decades of research and reflection, Pamela Reitman brings Charlotte's experience vividly alive.”

—Norman Fischer, Zen priest and poet, author of Selected Poems, 1980-2013

“Reitman’s historical novel charts the tragic life of a Jewish artist in World War II Europe… a vividly detailed rendering of a real life caught in a maelstrom of 20th-century horror.”

—Kirkus Reviews​
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About the Author Award-winning writer Pamela Reitman has a B.A cum laude in English from Columbia and an MPH from the University of California Berkeley. She is retired from a career in public health aimed at reducing the stigma of mental illness. Ms. Reitman was a past Director of Makar Or: A Jewish Meditation Center in San Francisco. She is lay ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition. She lives in Northern California with her husband.

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