This painting is a tribute to the many Jewish inhabitants of Zeludok in Lithuania ( modern-day Belarus) who were murdered in 1943 by the Nazis and the local militia. The rectangle faintly visible  on the lower right hand side of the image denotes the place in the forest where the shootings took place.Both my maternal great-grandfather and grandfather had come to London many decades before these dreadful events, but there were ongoing links to family and friends still in Zeludok which must have stopped abruptly. In fact my maternal great-grandmother had died young, and indeed it was through family and friends in Zeludok that my great-grandfather had found a second wife, Rosie, who travelled to London in 1905 to marry him and look after his four little girls.