In July 1936, the Gestapo stood in the Berlin living room of a 69-year-old woman, offering an impossible choice between arrest and quiet disappearance. She and her husband had already made a suicide pact rather than face the camps. Yet her art had made her too famous for even the Nazis to touch.

This episode explores the life and defiance of Kathe Kollwitz, the master printmaker and sculptor who turned charcoal, etching needles, and an unflinching eye for suffering into art powerful enough to threaten totalitarian power. From her working-class subjects to her devastating personal losses, hers is a story of bearing witness when everything demanded silence.

• How a childhood neurological disorder linked to Alice in Wonderland syndrome may have shaped her expressionist manipulation of scale and proportion
• Her breakthrough Weav ...