Toll, Nelly S.

Nelly Toll (née Landau) (19 April 1932 – 30 January 2021) was a Polish-born American Jewish artist, writer, and teacher, and was a survivor of the Holocaust. Toll, and her mother Rose, were the only members of their family to survive the Holocaust, and spent over eighteen months in hiding during 1943 and 1944. Toll's childhood water color paintings, in which she recorded her experiences of the Holocaust form a significant record of the period. They are archived in museums in the United States and Israel, and have been exhibited internationally, as well as being recorded in the form of a book by Toll. As an adult, Toll immigrated to the United States and settled there, teaching art and the history of the Holocaust at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.