ROCKFORD — For more than eight decades, evidence of the work created by a group of Polish-Jewish artists in a ghetto under Nazi control has been thought to be erased from history.
“The fundamental question of this story is: What happened to these works? Where are they now?” Joanna Tomalska-Więcek, an art historian and independent researcher, says in the 2020 Polish documentary “Kopiści.” “There must be some traces, somewhere.”
One of those traces has surfaced in Rockford…