the Paris World's Fair in 1937. From that year on, his work was regularly displayed around Paris, in salons and large annual art exhibitions. He was praised by high-ranking Parisian critics, and graphic arts experts wrote admiringly of him as a masterly young artist with a genius for wood engraving. The extent to which Zber embraced Paris as his new home is evident through the artwork that emerged from this period of his life. He was deeply inspired by the scenes and environments he was exposed to. In 1938, after coming into contact with the enlightened Jewry of the Baltic countries, thirty-five of his pieces were exhibited in an exhibition entitled ‘Jewish Graphic Art’. The exhibition was received by the principal towns of all the Baltic countries as well as Eastern Europe. The last exhibition of his career was the display of his prints by the publishing firm of the Rue des Beaux Arts, followed by having his work published in a limited edition album, submitted to the Bibliothèque Nationale. Holocaust Zber's successful but short career was to put to a halt in 1940 when Nazi Germany overtook Paris. Zber fled Paris in late May 1940 with a group of about ten Polish friends including his fellow artists and art school friends Ilya Schor and Resia Schor but then decided to return to be with Stenia Bonder. Of that group, only the Schors survived the Shoah. Zber married Stenia Bonder, who fought in the anti-Nazi underground movement in France. On May 14, 1941, Zber was arrested and sent, with 5,000 other Jews, to the French internment concentration camp of Beaune-La-Rolande. Even under these conditions he continued to pursue his artwork, such that, a recent exhibition in the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme included portraits painted by Zber while he was imprisoned there. He was in this concentration camp for over a year, until the 16th of July 1942, when he was transferred to the Pithiviers camp, and the next day to the Auschwitz extermination camp. References External links Martwa natura by Zber in Central Jewish Library 1909 births 1942 deaths Polish emigrants to France Polish artists Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust