Fanny Vaucher, a Swiss artist (she studied literature at the University of Lausanne and illustration/comics at l'Ecole des Arts Appliqués in Geneva) lived in Warsaw for several years from 2012. She kept the blog 'Polskie pigułki / Pilules Polonaises' ['Polish pills'] (https://pilulespolonaises.blogspot.com/), in order – as she later jokingly wrote in the introduction to an album based on this material (2013) – to "get used to the new environment. But I wouldn't call it therapy, rather a need to understand, to build an emotional bond with a place, an attempt to take root and get fond of one's new surroundings. Coming to Warsaw is a little different than coming to San Francisco, for example, because Warsaw takes time and patience and determination to discover everything step by step. You simply have to be willing to face it and not passively expect to be swept from your feet by its beauty." One of the layers of the city she explored was its Jewish history.
The album, favourably received (see, for example, the review https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2014/01/21/polskie-pigulki-fanny-vaucher/), lived to see a sequel based on the paracomic blog entries. https://culture.pl/pl/dzielo/fanny-vaucher-pilules-polonaises-2
When Vaucher returned to Switzerland, she was invited to create the illustrative layer of the guide 'Varsovie métropole: histoire d'une capitale, 1862 a nos jours' by Matthieu Gillabert.
The original works in the POLIN Museum's collection come from both of these projects.