Chaïm Kaliski
Chaïm Kaliski | |
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| Born | Haïm-Charles Kaliski December 25, 1929 Etterbeek, Province of Brabant, Belgium |
| Died | September 12, 2015 (aged 85) |
| Other names | Jim Kaliski; Jim d'Etterbeek; Ch. Kaliski |
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| Known for | Graphic chronicle of the Holocaust in Brussels |
| Relatives | René Kalisky (brother) Jonathan Zaccaï (nephew) |
Chaïm Kaliski (25 December 1929 – 12 September 2015), also known as Jim Kaliski or Jim d'Etterbeek, was a Belgian artist and comics author. Born into a modest Polish-Jewish family in Etterbeek, Brussels, he was deeply marked by the Holocaust, having lived through the Nazi occupation of Belgium as a hidden Jewish child. From the age of 60, he created an extraordinary self-taught graphic chronicle of that experience, producing more than 6,000 drawings and pages over eighteen years. He was the brother of playwright René Kalisky and the uncle of actor Jonathan Zaccaï.