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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Holocaust art

The Czech-Jewish composer Victor Ullman, left, was murdered during the Holocaust; Pavel Kling, right, survived and later became the concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. (Courtesy Louisville Orchestra via JTA)
Louisville Orchestra remembers concertmaster with opera he learned in Theresienstadt
By Shira Li Bartov
After escaping a death march from Auschwitz, Paul Kling moved to Kentucky and became the orchestra’s first chair. A Saturday performance of ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis’ will honor him
The Czech-Jewish composer Victor Ullman, left, was murdered during the Holocaust; Pavel Kling, right, survived and later became the concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. (Courtesy Louisville Orchestra via JTA)
January 25, 2025, 12:16 am
Louisville Orchestra remembers concertmaster with opera he learned in Theresienstadt
After escaping a death march from Auschwitz, Paul Kling moved to Kentucky and became the orchestra’s first chair. A Saturday performance of ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis’ will honor him
By Shira Li Bartov
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
A magazine is displayed during a preview of the exhibition 'My Verses Are like Dynamite' by Curt Bloch at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany on February 8, 2024. (Stefanie Loos / AFP)
February 9, 2024, 5:11 pm
Nazi gorillas and Hitler as a clown: Holocaust survivor’s cartoons on show in Berlin
Full collection of Curt Block’s satirical magazines goes on display eight decades after he created them with a fountain pen and newspaper cutouts while hiding in a Dutch attic
By Deborah Cole
From left to right: Pinkus Schwarz, Maximillian Feuerring, Ewa Brzezinska and Hirsch Szylis outside Munich’s Lenbachhaus Municipal Art Gallery in 1948. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Jewish Museum Munich)
December 30, 2023, 2:44 am
Resurrected exhibit provides insight into Jewish artists during, after the Holocaust
‘Munich Displaced,’ at the Munich Jewish Museum through March 17, portrays the city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war
By Bernard Dichek
Bruno Schulz, 'Dedication,' 'The Book of Idolatry,' 1920s. (courtesy)
June 30, 2023, 6:37 pm
How the work of a celebrated artist killed by a Nazi mysteriously ended up in Israel
In ‘Bruno Schulz,’ author Benjamin Balint follows the dark story of a renowned Polish-Jewish creative turned SS officer’s artist-slave, and the battles over his surviving legacy
By JP O’ Malley
Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)
June 15, 2023, 7:50 pm
Missouri school district to debate ban of ‘Maus’ over potential ‘sexual material’
Art Spiegelman, author of Holocaust graphic novel, leading fight against possible move at district of 6,000 students: ‘Book burning leads to people burning’
By Andrew Lapin
Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019. (Canaan Lidor)
March 29, 2023, 3:29 pm
Art in spotlight as 9 countries’ Holocaust envoys hold 1st gathering on restitution
US delegate Ellen Germain say conference meant to ensure governments are building on each other’s experience
By Canaan Lidor
Jacquelyne Vargas plays the video game "The Light in the Darkness," about a family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust, at Indie Game Revolution inside the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, on February 23, 2023. (Jason Redmond/AFP)
February 28, 2023, 11:53 am
In new Holocaust video game, players walk in shoes of Jewish family ripped from home
‘The Light in the Darkness’ creator says he hopes medium can be used to deal with subject in the same way as movies; was bothered by WWII games not clearly featuring genocide
By Daniel Hoffman
Promo pic for Jimmy Carr Destroys Art ((Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)
October 14, 2022, 8:25 am
‘Utterly sick’: UK TV to potentially destroy artwork by Hitler on new reality show
Program will take pieces by ‘problematic’ figures and ask audience to vote on their fate; antisemitism watchdog, other critics, decry ‘desperate’ format
By Ash Obel and ToI Staff
Artist Jenny Kagan's immersive exhibition 'Out of Darkness' in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2022 (photo: Grazvydas Jovaisa)
October 1, 2022, 6:34 am
In Kaunas, a British artist shines light on Holocaust massacre forgotten by locals
Near the site of one of the genocide’s most heavily photographed atrocities, lighting designer Jenny Kagan brings the city’s wartime past ‘Out of Darkness’
By Matt Lebovic
The Wassily Kandinsky painting 'View of Murnau with Church,' which was returned in September 2022 to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust. (Public domain)
September 29, 2022, 2:44 pm
Reversing earlier stance, Netherlands to return looted Kandinsky to Jewish family
Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain ‘View of Murnau with Church,’ displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven’s art museum since 1951
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Musician Lenka Lichtenberg. (Bo Huang)
September 23, 2022, 11:08 am
Podcast: Secret Holocaust poems set to haunting music by survivor’s granddaughter
Czech-born musician Lenka Lichtenberg speaks about her new album, ‘Thieves of Dreams,’ based on poetry written in Theresienstadt and hidden in Prague. NEW: Full transcript included
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative. Opioids in a loaded syringe and pills. (iStock)
September 1, 2022, 2:01 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 1: NY law addresses Holocaust education; an opioid antidote?
US reporter Luke Tress looks at Holocaust art education in NY and opioid crisis; Jessica Steinberg discusses Aviv Geffen’s abrupt political shift and rebates for film/TV producers
By ToI Staff
Scene from 'The Last Cyclist' production at La MaMa in New York, August 2017. (Alexander Jorgensen)
August 16, 2022, 4:03 pm
A lost comedy cabaret from the Terezin ghetto is reconstructed and finally staged
Originally banned by the camp’s Jewish leadership after dress rehearsal due to its boldness, Nazi victim Karel Švenk’s ‘The Last Cyclist’ is now getting its turn in the limelight
By Renee Ghert-Zand
'Roll Call in Concentration Camp' by Boris Lurie, shown at the exhibit 'Nothing To Do But To Try' at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, December 2021. (Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation)
December 18, 2021, 5:04 am
No shock value, just shock: Exhibit shows Boris Lurie’s searing post-Holocaust works
Through April 2022, ‘Nothing To Do But Try’ at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage showcases the artist’s overlooked early work, created in the immediate aftermath of the genocide
By Danielle Ziri
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