1939 photograph from Lejzerowicz’s membership card in the Jewish Society for the Promotion of the Arts. (see below for full image of the card) Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem, gift of Michael Levin, Paris.

Lejzerowicz (sick in bed?). Undated, location and photographer unknown. Courtesy Ephraim Margolin, San Francisco

Izrael Lejzerowicz at a summer resort “Wiśniowa Góra” (Cherry Mountain) near Łódź, surrounded by Nadiezda Yevseyevna (Nelly Levin’s grandmother), behind her is Lubliner, Yiddish writer and poet. Behind Lejzerowicz is Adela Margolin de Finkel, Sofia Finkel de Karasik’s mother. Date and photographer unknown. Courtesy Ephraim Margolin, San Francisco

Lejzerowicz in Łódź before the war. (You can see one of the city's factories in the background.) Yad Vashem Photo Archives 7779_1 Image courtesy Nelly Levin, Tel Aviv, who knew the artist before the war.

State Archives in Łódź and Yad Vashem Photo Archives 40_1381_10 Lejzerowicz painting a picture of Chaim Rumkowski, presumably in the artist’s apartment studio at Rybna/Fischstrasse 14A.

Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel 1495. Image by Mendel Grosman, from the book “With a Camera in the Ghetto” (1972), edited by Zvi Szner and Alexander Sened. Caption: “The artist Leizerowicz against the background of the bridge on Koscielny Square.” [Church Square/Plac Kościelny]

Jewish Society for the Promotion of the Arts, Fine Arts Section, Warsaw (ID card, front) Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych Sekcja Artystów Plastyków Dated January 31, 1939. Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum Jerusalem, gift of Michael Levin, Paris

Jewish Society for the Promotion of the Arts, Fine Arts Section, Warsaw (ID card, back) Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych Sekcja Artystów Plastyków Dated January 31, 1939. Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem, gift of Michael Levin, Paris