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A graduate of the University of Warsaw and a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza, Lidia Ostalowska always writes about those who have it hardest in this world: national minorities, women, subcultural youth and other outsiders and marginalised people. Her new book, Watercolours, is a story about one of the least researched genocides of the Second World War, which targeted European Roma. At the same time, it is the story of the amazing life of the Czech Jewish woman Dina Gotlibova, who painted portraits of Roma in Auschwitz at the request of the "angel of death" Dr Mengele, and after the war married the famous Disney animator Art Babit and made a successful career, after which she tried to sue the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum for her own watercolours...