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Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1900, he studied in Munich. He traveled to North Africa, Sahara Desert, he painted exotic people and landscapes. He spent most of his life in Łódź, Poland. He  depicted the lives of poor members of the Jewish community, portraits and landscapes of Polish shtetls. The outbreak of the war made him flee to Białystok, back then under Soviet occupation.

After the German invasion of 1941, he unsuccessfully tried to flee again. After the establishment of the ghetto, he started working at the Oscar Steffen's art copy workshops. Behrman led a group of Jewish artists who copied the reproductions of Rubens, Murillo, Boecklin and other European painters. 

Abraham Benhrman died in August 1943, during Nazi liquidation operation. He refused to leave his easel. 

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