The paintings were found after the end of World War II, and are now held mostly in the archive of the Jewish Historical Institute, in Warsaw, Poland.

Through him she met actor and director Jonas Turkow, who introduced her in turn to the sculptor Henryk Kuna.

Among these portraits are those of Rachel Korn, Baruch Gelman, Simon Horontchik, Itzik Manger and Moshe Broderson.

[3] Gela continued to paint during her ghetto years, drawing portraits such as children in the soup kitchen, her daughter, her husband, and her friends writers.

Gela, together with Izrael, actively participated in the Oneg Shabbat enterprise, headed by Dr. Emmanuel Ringelblum, which dealt with secretly documenting Jewish life within the ghetto.

In the early days of August, Izrael Lichtenstejn her spouse, and two of his students, Dawid Graber and Nachum Grzywacz, hid Gela's paintings, together with other documents, in the archive boxes that he buried in a school cellar on Nowolipki Str.

Gele Seckstein, artist, dozens of works, talented, didn't manage to exhibit, did not show in public.