This week in 1987, Sussex became the new home for around 6,000 drawings, paintings and writings of Arnold Daghani - a Jewish artist and writer and Holocaust survivor.

The works chronicle the time he spent in a Nazi labour camp during the second world war.

Twenty-five years later, the collection is housed in the archive of Sussex’s Centre for German-Jewish Studies.

Here is an extract from the article published in the Bulletin on 12 May 1987:

Major art collection comes to Sussex

The University of Sussex is the new home of a major collection of the works of the artist Arnold Daghani who died in Hove in April 1985.

Much of the art Daghani produced in his lifetime is lost, but his flat in Palmeira Square was a treasury of large and small works of infinite variety. A large proportion of these, including paintings, sculptures and various writings, has now come to the University.

The Daghani collection is the second major donation of works of art received by the University in recent months…

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