A Jewish family who was brutally exterminated once lived in the building that is now the Parisian Musée Nissim de Camondo. The artist and writer Edmund de Waal tells their story.
Interview by
Johanna Adorjan
Edmund de Waal, born in London in 1964, is an internationally acclaimed artist whose porcelain works are shown in the most important museums. He is also a writer. In 2010 “The Hare with the Amber Eyes” was published, which tells the story of his Jewish branch of the family. It has been translated into 25 languages and has sold more than a million copies. His new book is called: “Camondo: A Family History in Letters”, it is about the family who once lived in the building that is now the Parisian Musée Nissim de Camondo. It was brutally wiped out in the 20th century.