Home place: A Site of Resistance The artist that I chose to spotlight along with the theme in class, “Home place: A Site of Resistance”, was female German-Jewish painter, Charlotte Salomon. Charlotte Salomon was a young woman who lived in Germany during the Holocaust, and was under the reign of Adolph Hitler. Young Salomon lived in exile in France During World War II, where she created the play, Life? Or Theatre?, A Play with Music, …showed first 75 words of 701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 701 total…even just enjoying normal day-to-day love in her family, but it became a place where nothing that she wanted or was created to do was allowed. Her own home had become a place of resistance, where she could barely be the Charlotte Salomon that she knew. It is amazing that she even got the opportunity to secretly paint her emotions on a canvas, but we can learn much from studying her motivations behind her artworks.