Fireflies in the Dark. Rueben's Mother ?

The research for my screenplay took another twist today. On the Internet I discovered two extraordinary Jewish artists: Bauhaus trained Freidl Dicker-Brandeis, and Felix Nussbaum. Could Rueben's mother be modeled on the saintly Freidl? And could his father be modeled on Felix ?

The following is from the first article I found about Freidl:

'I was doing my rounds of the thrift shops, and found this heart rending book in the children's section. It's called Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin.

It tells the story of Dicker-Brandeis, a woman who packed more art supplies than anything else when she was sent to the Terezin concentration camp. And once there,she dedicated her life to distracting children--and helping them
document their fate--with the kind of self-abnegation one really only sees in saints. She gave lessons, invented contests with prizes, helped organize plays and musicals...anything to allow the children to have some semblance of childhood in a place of death. Daily one-way "transports" to Auschwitz occurred. Thousands of
drawings by Friedl's young pupils survived...whereas these same pupils did not.

Of the 15,000 children who passed through Terezin, only 100 survived."
Source: www.Scribd.com

And on a personal note, another email from Stuart at the Irish Jewish genealogical Society in Dublin today. Somebody has responded to his posting my fathers scanty details and false name on the 'wanting to find persons list.'

Somebody out there thinks they knew my father.

Could there be a link to finding the character of Reuben,and finding my father ?


To see some of Felix's work : http://ineselo69.blogspot.com/2010/05/arte-en-berlin-en-el-siglo-xx_8737.html