Bruno Schulz was shot in the street in Drohobych in November 1942 in a feud between two SS men; in 2001 Yad Vashem cut his murals from a pantry wall and flew them to Israel

Bruno Schulz, born in 1892, was a Jewish writer and artist in Drohobych. SS officer Felix Landau, who liked his drawings, got him out of the ghetto and commissioned murals for his house. On 19 November 1942 SS officer Karl Günther shot Schulz in the street. Accounts say Günther told Landau, "You killed my Jew, I killed yours," after Landau shot Günther's dentist, Adolf Löw. In 2001 German filmmakers found the murals in a pantry at 14 Tarnowski Street. Yad Vashem's head of restoration and two associates cut the main images from the walls in May 2001 and flew them to Israel. Ukrainian law banned export of pre-war cultural treasures. Yad Vashem said the murals were never registered as national assets and that the owners and local authorities gave consent. Benjamin Balint reports, citing two sources, that the Drohobych mayor received $900,000 in bribes^†. Polish papers called the removal theft. The homeowner Nikolai Kaluzhni threatened to take an ax to the murals. In 2008 Israel and Ukraine agreed that Yad Vashem keeps them on a 20-year loan, renewable every five years^†. They remain in Jerusalem in 2026^†.