The Fear of Felix Nussbaum

German-Jewish Felix Nussbaum was born in Osnabrueck, Germany, and studied in Hamburg, Berlin and Rome. He and his companion, Felka Platek, settled in Belgium in 1935. In 1940, he was arrested with all other aliens and sent to the camps of Saint Cyprien and Gurs in southern France. Nussbaum managed to escape, and lived in hiding in Brussels until he was caught in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz, where he perished. This documentary intents to serve as a guide to the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabruck as well as to remind that within Germany today many are committed to memorializing the Holocaust. Exploring many of Nussbaum works at the Museum, the film also includes specialist’s commentaries.