Leni Valk

For GhmS Festival LACUNA painted a number of memorial pieces in remembrance of Leni Valk, who was born as the only child of a Jewish family in Goch. When her father Walter was arrested and deported to the concentration camp Dachau, her mother sent Leni to Leeuwarden in The Netherlands to her uncle and aunt. There she attended school for the first time in 1939. In 1942, Leni and her relatives were arrested and deported to the concentration camp Sobibor, where she was only 9 years old, when she was murdered by the Nazis.