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Australian artist (1928–2018)

Mirka Madeleine Mora (néeZelik; 18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of Australian contemporary art.

Her media included drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic.

Early life

Mirka Mora was born on 18 March^{[citation needed]} 1928 in Paris to a Lithuanian Jewish father, Leon Zelik, and a Romanian Jewish mother, Celia Gelbein.^[1] She was arrested in 1942 during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv).

Her father, Leon, managed to arrange for her release from the concentration camp at Pithiviers (Loiret) before Mora and her mother were scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz.

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The family evaded arrest and deportation from 1942 to 1945 by hiding in the forests of France.^[2] After the war, 17-year-old Mirka met a wartime resistance fighter Georges Mora in Paris. They married in 1947.

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