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Etched in Flesh and Soul

The Auschwitz Number in Art

By: Batya Brutin

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Etched in Flesh and Soul

The Auschwitz Number in Art

By: Batya Brutin

A series of numbers was tattooed on prisoners’ forearms only at one location - the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Children, parents, grandparents, mostly Jews but also a significant number of non-Jews scarred for life. Indelibly etched with a number into their flesh and souls, constantly reminding them of the horrors of the Holocaust. References to the Auschwitz number appear in artworks from the Holocaust period and onwards, by survivors and non-survivor artists, and Jewish and non-Jewish artists. These artists refer to the number from Auschwitz to portray the Holocaust and its meaning. This book analyzes the place that the image of the Auschwitz number occupies in the artist’s consciousness and how it is grasped in the collective perception of different societies. It discusses how the Auschwitz number is used in public and private Holocaust commemoration. Additionally, the book describes the use of the Auschwitz number as a Holocaust icon to protest, warn, and fight against Holocaust denial.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110739968

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9783110739961

'Arbeit Macht Frei'

Representations and Meanings in Art

By: Batya Brutin

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'Arbeit Macht Frei'

Representations and Meanings in Art

By: Batya Brutin

Arbeit Macht Frei focuses on the various representations, meanings, and interpretations of the infamous phrase in art. The origin of the expression recalls the novel by German philologist Lorenz Diefenbach (1806-1883) from 1873 and the Weimar Republic, but is most associated with the National Socialists, who used it at the entrances to six of their concentration camps. The Nazis employed the slogan to misdirect with contempt and irony, and to instill false hope in the minds of prisoners to help prevent resistance and insurrection. Batya Brutin discusses Holocaust survivor artists and their descendants who are artists as well as others who use the well-known phrase in their artwork. These artists have used the inscription as a motif from a personal or general point of view to convey political messages, present values, or wrestle with universal perceptions. This is the first booklength treatment of this difficult yet necessary topic in art.

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128

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111175820

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9783111175829

Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank

By: Batya Brutin

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Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank

By: Batya Brutin

The photographs of the unknown Warsaw Ghetto little boy and the well-known Anne Frank became famous documents worldwide, representing the Holocaust. Many artists adopted them as a source of inspiration to express their feelings and ideas about Holocaust events in general and to deal with the fate of these two victims in particular. Moreover, the artists emphasized the uniqueness of both children, but at the same time used their image to convey social and political messages. By using images of these children, the artists both evoke our attention and sympathy and our anger against the Nazis’ crime of killing one and a half million Jewish children in the Holocaust. Because they represent different sexes, and different aspects - Western and Eastern Jewry - of Holocaust experience, artists used them in many contexts. This book will complete the lack of comprehensive research referring to the visual representations of these children in artworks.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110656914

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9783110656916

Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank

By: Batya Brutin

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Etched in Flesh and Soul

Etched in Flesh and Soul

'Arbeit Macht Frei'

'Arbeit Macht Frei'

Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank

Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank

Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank

Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank

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