Mauricio Amster Cats: A Life Dedicated to Art & Social Change Early Life and Education (1907-1936) Mauricio Amster Cats was born in 1907 in Lemberg, Ukraine (now Lviv), into a Sephardic Jewish family. He completed his initial education in Lviv before moving to Austria in 1927, leaving his family behind – tragically, his parents later perished in the Nazi concentration camp at Belzec. His attempts to study at the Academy of Fine…