With descriptions and introductory essays given in German, Hebrew and English, the pieces range from realistic to escapist, representational to allegorical: a watercolor butterfly lighting on hard ink lines of barbed wire against a ghostly background; a pair of women in brightly colored summer dresses seemingly floating, picnic baskets in hand, above a meadow. Meant to humanize the victims of the Holocaust, the severity of the collection seethes with profound anger. Even gentleness is rendered caustic. --Zak Nelson, writer and bookseller
Art from the Holocaust: 100 Works from the Yad Vashem Collection
With descriptions and introductory essays given in German, Hebrew and English, the pieces range from realistic to escapist, representational to allegorical: a watercolor butterfly lighting on hard ink lines of barbed wire against a ghostly background; a pair of women in brightly colored summer dresses seemingly floating, picnic baskets in hand, above a meadow. Meant to humanize the victims of the Holocaust, the severity of the collection seethes with profound anger. Even gentleness is rendered caustic. --Zak Nelson, writer and bookseller