By Jerusalem Post staff…
A daughter of Holocaust survivors, Wairarapa artist Helene Carroll attempts to create an Alphabet Series to the Holocaust which would bridge the gap between the past and modern New Zealand.
The colorful paintings of Helene Carroll present English letters like B or C and connect their innocence – B for Bird, C for Cone shell – to the Holocaust. B is linked to Belzec, the first extermination camp set up in German-controlled Poland. C is linked to Chelmno, the first concentration camp the Nazis built in occupied Poland near the city of Lodz.
On Monday, the public will be able to hold a virtual conversation with the artist ahead of an opening of her exhibition at Beit Lohamei Hagetaot (The Ghetto Fighters’ House – GFH) titled The Memory Keeper, allowing the Israeli public to see the works first shown at the Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History last year.
GFH CEO Yigal Cohen notes that to bring Jewish art all the way from New Zealand “connects people from the different corners of the earth” and that the exhibition “brings with it warm and moving human touch, which connects us at a time when we are meant to maintain social distance and remain indoors.”
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