Piroska Hévizi

Piroska Hévizi (1911–1994) was a Hungarian Jewish painter, photographer, fashion designer, and Holocaust survivor. Born in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania), she built an early career as a successful portrait photographer before moving into painting and design. A survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she later created a deeply personal series of expressionist artworks based on her wartime experiences, culminating in the 1986 exhibition Mementó in Budapest. Her work is held in the collection of the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives in Budapest.