Hungarian-born Alfred Tibor survived slave labor at the hands of the Germans and imprisonment by the Soviets during World War II, and escaped communist Hungary in 1956. He came to the United States and worked as a commercial artist until he was financially established enough to devote time to his own artwork. The bronze Remembrance was his first sculpture. Since the 1970s, the self-taught artist has created hundreds of other sculptures in bronze, alabaster, and marble. Many of his works have biblical themes or commemorate the Holocaust.
Commandment II is from a series of forged-iron sculptures Kirili began in the late 1970s. They are among his best-known works and reflect his strong interest in religious concepts and ancient texts…
To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
Where pain weeps, it is the Jew who weeps.
Where a bullet is fired, it is the Jew who falls.
—Why is the dog barking near the fence?
—Someone threw a rock at him, at the Jew’s dog.
We…