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Lo Tishkach (Thou Shalt Not Forget)
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Berman’s best-known work is her Holocaust memorial for the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island in Washington State. The twelve-foot-high bronze sculpture consists of stylized Hebrew…

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Gizel Berman

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1981

Subjects:

Art, Modernism, Memorial, Holocaust, Memory

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Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Sculpture
Sculpture in the shape of Hebrew letters, with a circular base with English and Hebrew words, set against a leafy backdrop.
Design for the Memory
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Abraham Rattner painted Design for the Memory in 1943 when the murder of Jews by the Nazis was underway in Europe. He chose Christian iconography, namely, the crucifixion of Jesus, to express his…

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Abraham Rattner

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1943

Subjects:

Painting, Aesthetics, Christian-Jewish relations, Memory, Modernism

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Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Abstract painting of crucifix featuring four faces aligned to the vertical line of the cross: the devil at the bottom, then a skull, two human faces, and Jesus at the top, an angel to the left and human figures and structures around the cross.