After surviving Auschwitz and reuniting with her husband, Czechoslovakian-born Gizel Berman immigrated to the United States in 1948. The couple settled first in Kansas and later in Seattle, where Berman studied art and began sculpting. She is best known for her bronze, which can be found in many locations in the northwest, including the Mercer Island Public Library. In 2008, Berman’s work was the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the West Valley Art Museum in Surprise, Arizona.
A simple searing truth emerges from the vast body of research and writing on the Holocaust. It is that European Jewry was ground to dust between the twin millstones of a murderous Nazi intent and a…
Amedeo Modigliani painted La Juive before he developed the signature style of his late work: portraits of women with elongated necks and faces. But a hint of that style can be seen here in the…
In the middle of the summer Meir’s father gave in to his uncle and aunt’s pleas and went away with them to spend a week in the country, and in obedience to his request Meir went over to the apartment…