Acrylic and ink collages, as well as poems, created by Colette Brunschwig and Paul Celan will be on display through June 17 at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Both artists were “European-Jewish victims of World War II,” and the work on display reflects their experiences as such.

The exhibit’s artwork, created by Colette Brunschwig from proofs of the French translation of Paul Celan’s 1963 German poems is supplemented by an English version of the poems as well.

Brunschwig, a French-Jewish abstract painter, was born in 1927 and spent the last years of the war in hiding. Celan, born in 1920 in what is now Romania, lost both of his parents in the war and experienced ghettoization, according to the museum.

Celan’s poetry is described as fragmented, broken and stammering, which “registers an extreme awareness of the difficulty and importance of rendering the unsayable in words resistant to the numbing force of cliché,” the museum’s description reads.