Star of David

Monday, May 14, 2007

Yellow Badge, Testimony of a Jewish Girl

Photo is courtesy of Artist and Doctor Martin Kieselstein who published it in his book We Have No Other Land under the title The Yellow Star.

Here’s a testimony of a Jewish girl about the Yellow Badge
Eva Heyman, diary entry (31st March, 1944)

Today an order was issued that from now on Jews have to wear a yellow star-shaped patch. The order tells exactly how big the star patch must be, and that it must be sewn on every outer garment, jacket or coat…
Source: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=9656

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Israel time

I hope that a manufacturer will make from this painting of a clock in a Star of David frame - a real product that will show Jews all over the world the Israel time...
Art reviewer Dr. Dalia Hakker-Orion wrote about Dick Ben Dor’s work:

Dick Ben Dor is an artist born in Holland whose early years were spent on a Dutch farm hiding from the Nazis. His works do not carry even the slightest trace of this traumatic past. His uncle, the artist Niko Broekman, has been a cardinal influence on his joyous colors and bubbling humour. There have been two other major influences on his artistic development, Mmoti Mizrachi and Professor John Byle. the forms remind one of cave paintings and ancient drawings on walls, or sometimes the work of primitive tribal artists. Dick Ben Dor is a founder member of “The Israel Miniature Art Society” and is one of their principal activists, as well an active member of the Painter’s & Sculptors Association of Israel.

Fritz Hirschberger

Dr. Stephen Feinstein sent me a link to Fritz Hirschberger’s (b. 1912 in Dresden) stunning painting titled THE CONCORDAT (the name of the 1933 agreement signed between the Vatican and Hitler) on the web site of The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

The painting shows a Nazi soldier standing with a faceless Catholic priest on a Jew with a Yellow Badge.

Israeli Trees

photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Dick Ben Dor
John Byle, Professor of art, wrote about Dick Ben Dor’s work:

Dick Ben Dor creates a magical enchanted world which charms and captivates our senses. His work is open, frank and innocent, artless in a positive sense.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Prayer

photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Dick Ben Dor.
His friend, Jacques Heller, wrote:

Painting is the way that man’s ideas, like tender plants, ripen into fruition. In the art of Dick Ben Dor, his colors sing. His world of symbols breaks through the barriers of life in a fusion of fantastic shapes that offer his audience a philosophical outlook into creation.

Dick Ben Dor, Prayer

The canvas of this work has the shape of a Magen David!
Email Dick Ben Dor: dickbendor@yahoo.com
All rights of the above photo are reserved to Dick Ben Dor.

Look at the Israeli Sky

Dick Ben Dor was born in 1936 in Amsterdam Holland. He survived the Holocaust and since then he lives in Israel.
Email Dick Ben Dor: dickbendor@yahoo.com
All rights reserved to Dick Ben Dor 2007. Green Magen David appears in the center of this work, as well as the shape of the canvas. Dick Ben Dor has dozens of paintings in which the shape of the canvas is the Magen David.