In her youth, Soshana was known by some critics as the Cassandra of the canvas who painted as Kafka wrote. It is a powerful image that continues to define her as an artist and as a woman. Her travels began quite young. She was only 11 ½ years old when Hitler and his troops marched into Vienna, an event that forced her family to flee and take on the life of refugees in a world of horrific chaos.

Preface: In the fall of 1996, the Mauerbach Auction took place in Vienna. Christie’s, on behalf of the Federation of Austrian Jewish Communities, auctioned off 8,000 works of art and other objects confiscated from the homes of Austrian Jews by the Nazis between 1938 and 1945. The Mauerbach Auction raised $14,600,000 for the benefit of the now elderly victims of the Holocaust and their families.