Tom Edwards
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 17 Jan
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Meanwhile, the remains of the 32 Cubans, many of whom were part of Nicolas Maduro's personal security detail, will be interred at the military pantheon in Havana's main cemetery.
He was an art student really, not an artist, when he entered the war and taken up as a very, very young man by the SOE.
And like all of those brave young people, he was dropped into enemy France, as it was then, as a pretty inexperienced person.
He was...
Exactly, yeah.
He was caught only after a few months.
And so spent really the most of his war being moved between concentration camps because the Germans labelled the SOE who were captured Nacht und Nebel, which meant that they were supposed to disappear into the death camp system rather than into the POW camps.
The wartime work for him was very much about survival because he was making it almost immediately as he was captured by the SS.
He was in solitary confinement for a long time, so it enabled him to keep sane.
In the camps it was then currency really for him.
He made it known very early on in each camp he was moved to that he had this skill and the SS picked up on this and they would ask him to make portraits of them and that relieved him from slave labour.
His fellow prisoners asked him to make drawings of them.
He exchanged those for cigarettes and those cigarettes were then used to exchange for bread.
So it was an integral part of how he survived.
And then, when he did survive and Dachau was liberated, he then did these series of drawings.
Just describe them.
The drawings themselves are extraordinary.
They're intense, very expressive sheets.
They're quite large, made in charcoal.
They're very visceral responses to what he saw.
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