The first work painted on a discarded canvas found at the Displaced Persons camp.

It is the first oil painting made by Bak using paint provided by US Army Major Leo Srole, who had asked his wife Esther to send it to a talented boy, who lived in the Displaced Persons camp in Landsberg, Germany. Since there was no turpentine to dilute the paint, Samuel used the paint directly from the tubes. There was no canvas available either, but he found an old torn painting of a saint with a hole in it in the rubbish dump of the camp. He tore a pocket off his pyjamas to mend the canvas. In 1948, his mother rolled this work up and took it together with all their belongings to Israel where they travelled to start a new stage in their life. The painting miraculously survived through all of Bak’s travels.