Publicly sanctifying GD's name in Death
When the Germans invaded Poland in the Fall of 1939, forcing the Jews to watch helplessly as their holy books, scrolls and synagogues went up in flames, one Rabbi holds tightly to his sacred Torah, sacrificing himself too, for his life has no meaning without it.
original medium - acrylic size - 32"x 40" copyright 1998
First hundreds, then thousands and eventually hundreds of thousands of innocent Jews were brought to their final destination by cattle cars.
With only their small bundles and meager belongings in hand, they lined up, were told to leave their possessions in heaps and never suspected what awaited them beyond the entrance walls on which they saw "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Will Set You Free")
original medium - oil size - 38" x 24" copyright 1998
Having been left for near dead on the day of his liberation from the concentration camp - with all of his family and worldly possessions gone but for the clothes he wears - the Holocaust Survivor ponders his future by asking, "Where do I go and what do I do now?
*The Original is on permanent exhibition at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
original medium - oil size - 24"x 36" copyright 1998
..."After hiding for days under a pile of dead bodies, I was liberated from Buchenwald Concentration Camp by American soldiers on April 11, 1945.
Weighing only 62 lbs., I took my first bite of bread and sip of water as a free man."
original medium - acrylic size - 16"x 20" copyright 1999
A military hero of Israel's three wars, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin believed the only solution to the Mid-East conflict was to compromise and sacrifice land in an effort to achieve peace between Arabs and Israelis. But when he signed the Peace treaty, he signed his own death warrant.
original medium - acrylic size - 24"x 36" copyright 1996
After years of imprisonment in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, an inmate stares blankly through the fence without any hope or future that the unknown is worse than any torture he has already endured.
original medium - oil size - 16" x 20" copyright 1999
(Remember)
The artist, in his studio, telling his grandchildren of the atrocities he suffered - just for being a Jew - at the hands of the Nazis during World War II; how he lived in the Lodz Ghetto, was forced to work in German ammunition factories, and barely survived Buchenwald Concentration Camp from which he was finally liberated in April 1945.
original medium - oil size - 48" x 40" copyright 1998
Haunting Memories
The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate- a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps— spoke out publicly on how words alone cannot portray the tragedies and horrors of the Holocaust which haunted him all the days of his life.
original medium - acrylic size - 18"x 24" copyright 2000
