oha 2006

This grandmother and the kids are enjoying their holiday walk to the Auschwitz death camp gas chambers

Art: 2006
Media: Gouache, ink, pencil
Framed. Drawing paper size: 22 5/8 in. H x 16 5/8 W

The title was inspired by a passage in Fateless, by late Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz. Kertez  won a Nobel Prize for Literature; the book  was made into a movie (released 2005)l which, at the time, was very popular among younger age Hungarian people.

~

The imagery was inspired by a black & white photo in the book The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport (Yad Vashem, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2002, 2004). The photo, on page 249, is captioned: "An old Jewish woman takes care of the little children on the way to the gas chambers."

Exhibitions

Vivant Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 2009: ‘Transcending History – Moving Beyond Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust' (group national invitational)