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Remembrance was commissioned by Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio. The nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts smoke rising from a crematorium, intertwined with the arm of a survivor…
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Alfred Tibor
Places:
Columbus, United States of America
Date:
1974
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
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Yigael Tumarkin
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1975
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Glid’s memorial for the Jews of Salonika, Greece who were murdered in the Holocaust is modeled on Menorah in Flames, his 1990 monument for the murdered Jews of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Both depict a tree…
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Nandor Glid
Places:
Thessaloniki, Greece
Date:
1997
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Memory: The Homosexual Memorial Imagination was the winner of a contest held in 1998 by Beth Simchat Torah, a pioneering LGBT synagogue located in New York City, to choose an artwork memorializing the…
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Noreen Dean Dresser
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1998
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Whiteread’s memorial for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust is located in Vienna in a square known as the Judenplatz. Sometimes called the Nameless Library, the steel and concrete structure has…
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Rachel Whiteread
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
2000
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Iofin’s portrait of his parents, painted before his emigration from the Soviet Union, was a sly protest against Socialist Realism. He painted in the style but parodied it by overloading his picture…
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Michael Iofin
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1984
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Plachy took this photograph on one of her many trips to Central and Eastern Europe. A photojournalist, she has said that she is drawn to scenes peripheral to the actual news story. Here, reflections…
Contributor:
Sylvia Plachy
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Dachau, West Germany (Dachau, Germany)
Date:
1985
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Weinfeld, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, produced artworks addressing the question of who she would have been if she had herself been a prisoner in a concentration camp? Would she have been…
Contributor:
Yocheved Weinfeld
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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Few works by Louise Nevelson allude to Jewish themes. Homage to the Six Million is one of the exceptions. She said of her sculpture that she hoped it would create “a living presence of a people who…
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Louise Nevelson
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1964
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In The Dead Class, the most famous of Kantor’s theater pieces from the 1970s, the main characters of the play are elderly men (who are to be understood as being dead), who return to their school desks…
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Tadeusz Kantor
Places:
Kraków, Poland
Date:
1975