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When Nazi Germany established the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, Seksztajn did not lay down her brushes. Instead, she channelled her gifts into nurturing the souls of those around her, working as an art teacher in charitable soup kitchens for children, creating costumes and decorations for ghetto theatre productions, and organising exhibitions of children's artwork. She painted her daughter, her husband, her colleagues, and the children who came hungry to the social kitchens she served. In the bleakest of circumstances, she kept beauty alive. 🕯️\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSeksztajn's works survive today only because of the \u003cem\u003eOyneg Shabbos\u003c\/em\u003e group (known in Modern Israeli Hebrew as \u003cem\u003eOneg Shabbat\u003c\/em\u003e), a clandestine collective led by Jewish historian Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum. 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