Abstract
Debates now taking place on the impact of the images of Belsen tend to neglect the drawings and paintings made by the Official War Artists. It is not clear why, while a lot of attention is devoted to photographs and films, these other visual testimonies are left aside. One reason might be technical: to reproduce colour art faithfully used to be a major difficulty before the introduction of computer-assisted processes, but it seems that these works of art may be deemed too demanding. The essay concludes that by neglecting these graphic documents, historians and educators are depriving themselves of a major source of visual representation of what took place in Belsen in the days following the liberation of the camp.
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