Friends and Neighbors: Secret art and the Holocaust
Gay Clarkson of Waterford, art historian and Holocaust educator, delivered this year’s distinguished Bernstein Memorial Holocaust Remembrance Lecture at Acton Library in Old Saybrook on April 29.
Her subject was art secretly produced inside Nazi death camps during World War II, and paintings made from memory by survivors after the war. The lecture was illustrated with drawings hidden from guards, stimulating discussion among attendees of the response to injustice by victims who used any means to express their fear.
May 14 marked the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel.
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