Lurie was liberated by the Red Army in January 1945.
Two months later, she reached a camp of Jewish soldiers from Palestine fighting in the British army in Italy.
For the camp's military song and dance performances, Lurie created stage backdrops.
She also authored a sketchbook titled Jewesses in Slavery, after an exhibition of drawings was organized by the painter Menahem Shemi, a soldier in the camp.
The sketchbook, published by the Jewish Soldiers' Club of Rome, collected reconstructions of the works she drew at the Leibitz concentration camp.

Lurie returned to Palestine in July 1945.
There, she married and had two children.
While raising her family, she continued to paint and exhibit her work in Israel and abroad.
In 1946, she again won the Dizengoff Prize for the second time with her sketch Young Woman with the Yellow Patch, which she drew in the Kovno ghetto.

Prior to the Eichmann trial in 1961, in an interview with Maariv, she said, "I am a local Israeli painter.
It's time I stopped being the Ghetto Painter."
Although she was not required to testify in the trial herself, her sketches and watercolors documenting the Holocaust were approved by the Supreme Court of Israel for their documentary value and served as part of the testimony.

Lurie donated much of her work from the time of the Holocaust, which can found in the collections of the Ghetto Fighters' House and Yad Vashem in Israel, both memorials to the Holocaust.

After the Yom Kippur War, her work mainly focused on depicting landscapes, especially that of Jerusalem.
She died in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1998.
Lurie was liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. Two months later, she reached a camp of Jewish soldiers from Palestine fighting in the British army in Italy. For the camp's military song and dance performances, Lurie created stage backdrops. She also authored a sketchbook titled Jewesses in Slavery, after an exhibition of drawings was organized by the painter Menahem Shemi, a soldier in the camp. The sketchbook, published by the Jewish Soldiers' Club of Rome, collected reconstructions of the works she drew at the Leibitz concentration camp.
Lurie returned to Palestine in July 1945. There, she married and had two children. While raising her family, she continued to paint and exhibit her work in Israel and abroad. In 1946, she again won the Dizengoff Prize for the second time with her sketch Young Woman with the Yellow Patch, which she drew in the Kovno ghetto.
Prior to the Eichmann trial in 1961, in an interview with Maariv, she said, "I am a local Israeli painter. It's time I stopped being the Ghetto Painter." Although she was not required to testify in the trial herself, her sketches and watercolors documenting the Holocaust were approved by the Supreme Court of Israel for their documentary value and served as part of the testimony.
Lurie donated much of her work from the time of the Holocaust, which can found in the collections of the Ghetto Fighters' House and Yad Vashem in Israel, both memorials to the Holocaust.
After the Yom Kippur War, her work mainly focused on depicting landscapes, especially that of Jerusalem. She died in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1998.
Esther Lurie