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PEOPLE & ARTS A29
Tuesday 26 January 2016
Exhibit of Jewish artists’ Holocaust works opens in Berlin
K. GRIESHABER the Yad Vashem memo- Artist Nelly Toll poses between two of her paintings during the Not all the works show an
Associated Press rial in Jerusalem has been exhibition ‘Art from the Holocaust - 100 Works from the Yad escape into a happy imag-
BERLIN (AP) — Nelly Toll was shown outside Israel. Vashem Collection’ at the German Historic Museum in Berlin, ination. Some artworks are
8 years old when she and The exhibition includes Germany, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. shocking in their depictions
her mother went into hiding work by Jewish artists in hid- of life in the ghetto, daily
in 1943 in Poland to escape ing, in concentration and (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) discrimination and fear of
the Nazis’ death camps. labor camps, and in ghet- being killed by the Nazis.
The Jewish girl spent long tos. Of the 50 artists fea- ated art while being sur- imaginary places of beau- Halina Olomucki’s 1939
hours in her tiny hideaway tured, 24 were killed by the rounded by death, fear ty and happiness. pencil work, “After the
at a Christian family’s home Nazis. Alongside the mostly and suffering, painting was “I would have conversa- Shearing of the Beards,”
writing stories, keeping a di- unknown names are ac- a way for Toll to break free tions with the characters in shows two orthodox men
ary and creating wonder- claimed artists such as Fe- and escape from the Ho- my paintings for hours,” Toll with bandages around
ful, bright paintings of a lost lix Nussbaum and Ludwig locaust’s harsh reality to remembered. their heads after their
world. Meidner. beards had been torn or
Today, her art is on display Toll is the only artist repre- burned off by Germans in
in the center of Berlin at sented in the show who is the Warsaw ghetto.
a special exhibition of Art still alive. One of her paint- Leo Haas’ “Transport from
from the Holocaust that ings, “Girls in the Field,” Vienna” shows the arrival
opened at the German shows two girls, dressed in of a train full of elderly
Historical Museum on Mon- bright blue, red and yel- Jews at the Theresienstadt
day. low-dotted dresses walking ghetto in 1942. Painted in
“I hope that generations to across a sunny lawn con- dark, monochrome India
come will look at this and fined by lush green trees. ink, people with faces like
know what atrocities made “I made 60 paintings while hollow skulls can be seen
me do this,” Toll told The As- in hiding and all of them tumbling out of cattle cars,
sociated Press at the open- express happiness,” said many lying lifeless on the
ing. Toll, who lost her father and ground as a soldier keeps
Toll’s paintings are among brother in the Holocaust. pulling more people off the
100 artworks created by She emigrated to the Unit- train.
Jewish artists during the Ho- ed States with her mother The show’s curator, Yad
locaust on display, the first after the war. Vashem’s Eliad Moreh-
time the collection from Like many Jews who cre- Rosenberg, called the
