Marianne Grant

Marianne "Mausi" Grant (19 September 1921 – 11 December 2007) was a Czech-Scottish Jewish artist, who survived the Holocaust after being imprisoned in three successive concentration camps. The couple were married in 1920 and decided to settle in Prague.

In the autumn of 1951, Marianne married Jack Grant (born Jaakov Horst Grodszinksy), a German Jewish refugee living in Glasgow. where she learned to speak English. Studio of Art and Graphic Design, against considerable hostility from her father, who preferred that she went to university. The studio had an international reputation and was known for its modernist design

In April 1938, Grant's father died. During that period she volunteered with the El Al organisation in Prague. El Al was a Czech alternative to the Tekhelet Lavan, a labour Zionist youth organisation, that was formed in Prague in January 1937.

Annexation After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Germany annexed the German-majority populated Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and in March 1939 Adolf Hitler occupied the Czech rump state. On 15 March 1939, the Germans were ordered to occupy the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, which included Prague and that changed Grant's life irrevocably. The Germans drafted the Czech men to work in coal mines, in the iron and steel industry, and in armaments production. Grant volunteered to work on farms in Moravia. In September 1940, Grant and her mother were forced to wear the Jewish Star was formerly a Czech Army garrison. When they left, the first Jewish folk to arrive along with Grant and her mother, lived in the old army barracks. Grant and her mother survived the first day and after some days she was assigned to play with the children, in the children's block. using an architect's drawing kit that was supplied by Mengele. She also drew a mural in the children's block, depicting the youth of the world. Both Grant and her mother survived even though Anna contracted typhus. for the "No Childs Play" exhibition in July 1997. At the same time, the Museum filmed an interview about her life and published a memoir "I Knew I Was Painting for My Life". The Scottish Government prepared an education pack that was based on the life experiences of Grant. It was distributed to every secondary school in Scotland. During the 2003 Holocaust Memorial Day celebrated in Edinburgh, Grant's pictures were displayed for a second time at the City Art Centre. In 2005, to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers, a commemoration was held at Westminster Hall where Grant was introduced to the Queen.