OHA 1981

AN UN’KNOWN AND NAME-LESS MAN, A PIOUS JEW, A JUST AND G-D FEARING SOUL…

Art: 1981
Media: Ink, pencil, colored pencil
Size:  39.5 inches H x 27 3/4  W (unframed)
Collection of the artist

The writing on the drawing:
AN UN’KNOWN AND NAME-LESS MAN,
A PIOUS JEW, A JUST AND G-D
FEARING SOUL, DIED IN AN UNKNOWN YEAR
IN AN UNKNOWN CONCENTRATION CAMP SOME-
WHERE IN EUROPE WITH HIS UNKNOWN LOVED
ONES…DEVOTED WIFE OF MANY YEARS…
BEAUTIFUL AND ADORING CHILDREN, AND RIGHT-
EOUS G-D FEARING PARENTS….HEAR ME OH
LORD! HE CRIED – THIS UNKNOWN – JUST AND SAINTLY
MAN GRIEVED FOR THE GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL…
HE PRAYED THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL – THE FUTURE
GENERATIONS - WOULD PRAY AND REMEMBER – FOR HE AND HIS
LOVED ONES HAD BEEN GOOD JEWS – HE CRIED OUT IN AWE
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָֽד

[The Hebrew writing, in transliteration to English letters:
Sh’ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
"Hear, O Israel: the LORD is our God, the LORD is One”]
 ~
In 2004 the drawing was reproduced on a human rights lecture flyer by the Atlantic Human Rights Centre, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The lecture flyer text:

Dr. Bernie Vigod  Memorial Lecture in Human Rights:
"Anti-Semitism and Racism in Canada Today -
Challenges That Face Us All"
Lecture presented by Dr. Karen Mock, executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, and former chair of the Advisory Committee for Canada's preparations for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism. Ted Daigle Auditorium, St Thomas Univ, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2004, 7pm.