Salomon's caption: "Franziska: 'In Heaven everything is much more beautiful than here on earth - and when your Mummy has turned into a little angel she'll come down and bring her little lambkin, she'll bring a letter, telling her what it's like in Heaven, what it's like up there in Heaven.' Franziska was of a somewhat sentimental disposition. She would often take the child to bed with her and tell her about a life after death in celestial spheres, a life that was said to be simply glorious and for which she seemed to have a terrible yearning, and she often asked Charlotte whether it wouldn't be wonderful if her mother were to turn into an angel with wings. Charlotte agreed that it would, only she asked her mother not to forget to tell her in a letter - which she was to deliver personally as an angel and deposit on Charlotte's windowsill - what it was like up there in Heaven."
Life? or Theatre?: A Play With Music, 1940-42
Gouache, 12" x 9"
Collection of the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
© The Charlotte Salomon Foundation