In 1942 Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish refugee from Germany, came to a local doctor in Villefranche near Nice with a package containing more than thousand gouaches. She told him: 'Keep it safe- it´s my whole life'. (Cést toute ma vie') Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin where she received some academic training at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste . 1939 her parents sent her to France, to Villefranche, where her grandparents lived since the beginning of the Nazi-Regime. When the Nazis in 1940 occupied the north of France all foreign Jewish people came into camps. Charlotte Salomon stayed only one month in Gurs. When she returned to Villefranche she began with her 'autogiografical play' she illustrated the most important moments of her life, wrote an accompanying text and often indicated a certain piece of music . All this 1300 gouaches were painted in the fewerish two years after her returning from Gurs until 1942 when German troops had occupied also the south of France 10 months later the 26 years old Charlotte Salomon was deportated to Auschwitz where she died.