In captivity (1945)

On page 4 of the July 16, 1945 issue of the weekly A Reggel, a small news item reads, 'On Sunday, a new list of deportees anxiously awaiting their return home arrived at the Reggel's editorial office. In the morning, the Regiment received a new list of new arrivals, mostly men and women from Budapest, some of whom are living in the Berlin-Bisdorf camp, others in the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg camp'.  Among the names is that of Magda Frank, the only one from her family. As early as 1944, in the Budapest ghetto, Frank set about capturing the most horrific moments of the occupation and her fellow citizens in drawings as an artistically sensitive chronicler. 

In Captivity is part of this series, which, despite its disturbed lines and composition, its subject (the Holocaust) or the depiction of a starving, tired, naked woman, isolated by barbed wire, also foreshadows hope and the possibility of survival with the sun symbol in the top right-hand corner of the picture.