"Drawn Because It Just Happened" Sketch

A man, Gerry Waldston, leaning back in a dining chair, holding a broom and adjusting a radio dial. The handwritten caption reads, “Drawn because it just happened – Feb. 22nd 1941, Camp ‘B’ Canada.’” The sketch is signed in the bottom right corner.

Sketch of the artist resting in a chair, holding a broom and adjusting the radio dial.

Gerry Waldston sketched this self-portrait while interned at Camp B in Ripples, New Brunswick. As an orderly in the soldiers’ quarters of the internment camp, Waldston was able to listen to daily radio reports on the war. He acted as the internees’ source of news from the outside world.

Donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre by Gerry Waldston. 2012.009.003

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(5 minute sketch) Drawn because it just happened – Feb. 22 1941 Camp ‘B’ Canada [signature]

"Drawn Because It Just Happened" Sketch

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