94:, the annexation of Austria to National Socialist Germany in March 1938, Abramowicz and his wife were persecuted due to anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Austria. Abramowicz fled to France on May 24, 1938, and his wife followed him in January 1939. Their apartment and its entire contents were confiscated in 1938. The inventory of the apartment and studio, including the entire artistic oeuvre since 1918, an estimated 600 oil paintings and 7,000 works on paper, copies after old masters, magnificent original costumes that Abramowicz had used for his works, a small collection of paintings by modern painters and several projection and photographic cameras were confiscated and forcibly sold. Their whereabouts are unknown.
105:, who had a strong artistic influence on him. In 1940, Abramowicz and his wife were taken separately to internment camps. However, with the permission of the prefecture of Grenoble, they were given a refugee apartment as victims of the Nazis. In July 1943, the wife was captured by the Nazis and taken to the Gurs concentration camp. Abramowicz was arrested during a raid in August 1943 and sent to a camp in Toulouse. He and his wife managed to escape and lived underground with the help of a Jewish refugee committee until the liberation of the country.
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