Who owns the paintings made by a WWII concentration camp prisoner, if those paintings were arguably made as payment for her freedom? The artist? Or the state? Is the art public domain?
Below is her impassioned plea on YouTube to the curators of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, who, while they acknowledge that she is the artist who created the paintings, still refuse to relinquish them to her, claiming they are the property of the state.
