Arnold Daghani
Born 1909 Sucueava, Romania. Died 1985, England.
Arnold Daghani's experience reflects that of many Jews, living in central Europe during the twentieth century. Growing up in a German culture, his region was annexed by Romania in 1918. In the 1930s he lived in Fascist controlled Bucharest and then moved to Czernowitz which was under Soviet control. Soon after he settled there, the Nazis, invaded the region and began the deportation of Jews. In June 1942 Daghani was sent to a forced labour camp in the Ukraine He escaped and went into hiding in Romania. At the end of the war he moved to Israel, France, Switzerland and then England.
His work addresses his experience in the labour camp. An archive of his drawings and writings was bequeathed to the University of Sussex.