As the granddaughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, British author Natalie Livingstone wasn’t just fascinated by World War II history, she was determined to excavate it.
While negotiating the galleries inside London’s Imperial War Museum, she found herself beholding an arresting 6-foot oil painting simply titled “The Nuremberg Trial.” The defining artwork of the “trial of the century” depicts the desolate dock of Courtroom 600 inside the infamous Palace of Justice. In the haunting backdrop lies the occupied city in ruins, once considered the spiritual home of the Third Reich.
A visitor looks at “The Dock at Nuremberg” by Dame Laura Knight during a press preview of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. PA Images via Getty Images
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