Colored pastel portrait of Kazimierz Orlowski at age 4 saved by his brother, Jurek. The portrait was created by Wilhelm Wachtel in 1937 in Warsaw. This may be a reproduction of the original. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the boy's father, Maximillian, an officer in the Polish Army, was captured and held as a POW by the Soviets. In October 1940, Kazimierz, then 7, his brother, Jurek, 9, and their mother, Zofia, were forced into the Warsaw ghetto. In January 1943, Zofia was shot with the other patients in the hospital during an Aktion by German soldiers. Their Aunt Stefa o...