Watch List notes:

Original Jewish WWII/Holocaust-era art: "Total War" ink on paper, signed J.S. 41; 8.9 x 14cm, pasted onto thin cardboard mat, initialled/dated (J.Sohn 41 [1941]) and titled by the artist. The artist was Jakob Sohn, a professor of mathematics & physics, originally from Würzburg and later from Nuremberg; dismissed during the Third Reich for being Jewish, he moved to Leipzig where he assisted with Jewish education; emigrated to Britain in 1939. He painted as a hobby. Sohn's style was to incorporate several images into a single picture: here seen various settings of the-then world at war - tanks near a pyramid (North Africa), warplanes over the Acropolis; the foreground appears to depict winter-landscape (i.e. Russia), a shepherd with his flock & burning bush (Biblical allusions to the origins of the Jews), next to a tombstone symbolizing the Jewish victims of the Holocaust - all set below image of globe depicting Europe/North Africa & Atlantic with warplanes and bombs being dropped + allusions to global chaos. Probably sketched after the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941), but possibly before America's entry into the War (Dec. 1941).