Survival

Photo is courtesy of Gabriel Cohen

Copyright: Gabriel Cohen 2008

Right now this works is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser. 

Size: 100*120 centimeter. Oil paint, plaster and material on canvas

Gabriel Cohen wrote:

An integration of various elements which fuse together to create a work which depicts the unique People of Israel, forever the Nation of Israel. From the 4 corners of the world, from ancient times until modern times, through persecutions and exiles, the Jews have remained a united nation and people because of their enduring faith in God. I didn't utilize the color yellow because that was the color that the Nazis used for the Jews. I used white extensively to symbolize the purity and simplicity of the Jewish People's hope to return to the holy Land of Israel.

Gabriel Cohen, 45, Tzfat, multi-media artist who integrates, in a. unique fashion, various materials and mediums in his works. He exhibits his work in a permanent exhibition in Tzfat, the "Ma'ayan HaOmanut" in the Old City of Tzfat, as well as in group exhibitions.

Bar Code Holocaust Yellow Badge

Photo is courtesy of Sabina Saad

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

Sabina Saad is working currently on a series of Yellow Holocaust Badge paintings. The one we see here is titled: The Cost, and it is designed as a Bar code to strengthen the message that the Jewish people paid a heavy price during WWII.

Contemplating this work of art one might realize that the sounds of the word Holocaust are HOLLOW & COST, which mean that the victims of the Nazis left an empty inner space (the word hollow) in our memory, and that the victims payed a horrible cost.

Einat Maor, After a Roots-Journey in Poland

Photo is courtesy of Einat Maor

Copyright: Einat Maor 2008

Right now this works is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser. 

Einat Maor wrote that the work was created after a roots-journey in Poland and in the death camps with her mother of blessed memory. The work combines Holocaust memories with flowers that reflect grief as well as hope for a better future.