Marianne "Mausi" Grant (19 September 1921 – 11 December 2007) was a Czech-Scottish Jewish artist,[1][2][3] who survived the Holocaust after being imprisoned in three successive concentration camps.

From a young age, Grant loved drawing and painting but her plans to study art at university were stymied after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 by Nazi Germany.

In June 1939, the Nuremberg racial laws were implemented and Grant and her family faced increasingly stringent restrictions that lead them to be interred at a camp in Prague and then later deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in May 1942.

[5] In the autumn of 1951, Marianne married Jack Grant (born Jaakov Horst Grodszinksy), a German Jewish refugee living in Glasgow.

[3] In 1937, Grant attended the Vilém Rotter [cs][8] Studio of Art and Graphic Design, against considerable hostility from her father, who preferred that she went to university.

El Al was a Czech alternative to the Tekhelet Lavan,[11] a labour Zionist youth organisation, that was formed in Prague in January 1937.

[12] After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Germany annexed the German-majority populated Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and in March 1939 Adolf Hitler occupied the Czech rump state.

[13] On 15 March 1939, the Germans were ordered to occupy the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, which included Prague[14] and that changed Grant's life irrevocably.

[5] Grant and her mother arrived during a freezing cold night and she was in shock as she watched prisoners in striped uniforms remove the dead bodies from the cattle wagons.

[5] New arrivals were processed by the SS guards who told her them to strip and march past an official who sorted them by sending them to a left or right column.

[3] At the request of Fredy Hirsch, Grant along with Czech artist Dina Gottliebová painted a mural in the children's block that displayed Eskimos, Indians, Africans, countryside scenes and Disney characters.

[19] One day a Slovak SS guard asked Grant to create an oil painting for his wife and draw books for his children.

[5] In July 1945 , Grant and her mother were transported to Malmö, Sweden by the Swedish Red Cross for medical treatment and recuperation, with the help of the White Buses operation.

[4] Through a friend from Gothenburg, who went to live in Glasgow, Grant met and began to correspond with Jaakov Horst Grodszinksy, a German refugee who lodged with the family.

[5] Grant recreated the mural "Wall Drawings from the Childrens Block" for Yad Vashem[19] for the "No Childs Play" exhibition in July 1997.

[1] In 2002, she decided to show her work in a permanent exhibit at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum that depicts first-hand some of the atrocities in the Nazi concentration camps that she witnessed.

[1] In 2005, to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers, a commemoration was held at Westminster Hall where Grant was introduced to the Queen.