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.

Hedva Atlas Ben David, Yellow Patch

Photo is courtesy of Hedva Atlas Ben David. It was kept 65 years in her mothers album until Hedva found it and painted on it a large yellow star.

Copyright: Hedva Atlas Ben David 2008

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

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Size:4A

Technique:Mixed media

Hedva Atlas Ben David is an artist and a teacher. Born in Haifa, Israel

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Jennifer Gottschalk, Yellow Badge

Photo is courtesy of Jennifer Gottschalk 

Copyright: Jennifer Gottschalk 2008

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

“Yellow Badge" contains the names of 1,692 Shoah victims sourced from the online Yad Vashem database. The silhouette of the boy was taken from the famous "Warsaw Ghetto Photograph".

Jennifer Gottschalk was born in South Africa and currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. The idea for this work came from Zeev Barkan, who runs this blog.

Sabina Saad, Yellow Star

Photo is courtesy of Sabina Saad

Copyright: Sabina Saad 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: 70cm x70cm

Technique: Acrylic on material

Sabina Saad is a Second generation of holocaust survivors.

She wrote:

The yellow star, a small piece of material that marked the Jews, took on a wide-ranging significance and sealed destinies. Thus I chose to draw an enlarged yellow star such that the canvas could not contain it. Had I the possibility, I would have drawn it the size of a stadium, but that too would not have been enough to encompass the immense horror that the yellow star symbolizes.

Shalom (Peace) Flag

The Star of David replaces the letter "o" in the word “Shalom” (Peace) on a flag made by an Evangelical group. Photo was taken at the Muchraka (Carmel, Haifa, Israel) 10 may 2008. Copyright: Alan Miller 2008