The incredible story of a Czech-Scottish Jewish artist who survived the Holocaust after being imprisoned in three concentration camps and later came to live in Glasgow will be told at a special event in Largs.

The Opportunities In Retirement group has invited Dr Joanna Meacock, Curator of British Art with Glasgow Museums, to give a presentation at its meeting in the Clark Memorial Church Hall from 2-4pm on Wednesday, May 3.

Her talk 'Painting For My Life'  looks at the artworks of Marianne Grant.

Marianne loved drawing and painting but her hopes of studying at university were dashed after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 by Nazi Germany

She painted this collection while interned in a Nazi concentration camp in Prague and then later deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in May 1942.

Grant spent 18 months in the ghetto before being transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp.

In Auschwitz, she used her painting skills in exchange for food and medicine and to make the childrens block where she worked, more homely.

However, her work came to the notice of Josef Mengele, the SS officer who earned himself the nickname 'The Angel of Death', who used Grant to paint family trees of dwarfs and twins.

After seven months, Grant was sent to a forced labour battalion and, later, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

When she was liberated, she was sent to Sweden to recuperate and met her future husband.

They married and settled in Glasgow. After the war, she finished her education at the Glasgow School of Art. 

Dr Meacock's presentation will be followed by refreshments, and as always, a warm welcome is extended to members old and new.