creating a gallery of holocaust survivors, the bbc has been following the project. covid made things unconventional for artist massimiliano pironti. i started to paint this portrait in completely opposite process as normal. you should have painted me when i had hair! yeah, that was a while ago. we had like three virtual sittings. it was a very challenging experience. your book? oh, yes. months later came a real—life meet—up, as arek shared his story. that was my first camp. 11 years old, i was. 11 years old. yeah. that's auschwitz, yeah. it's where we got our number on the arm. newsreel: these are children who survived at auschwitz. - arek was one of those survivors.