Shoah (non-wings art) & Anti-Semitism

1978 Mixed wet & dry drawing media on paper 48" H x 24" W Please click to enlarge	AUSCHWITZ: THE DEAD WILL BE AVENGED! Inspired after reading Elie Wiesel's "Night" (Nuit). Public Collection: Hillel Center, University of Missouri, Columbia
1980 36" H x 24" W Wet & dry drawing media on paper. Please click image to enlarge	J'ACCUSE! Inspired by the infamous anti-Semitic charges made against French army Captain Alfred Dreyfus in France in 1894 and Emile Zola's impassioned defense of the Jewish captain in 1898...J'ACCUSE! and Dreyfus became a world-famous cause celebre in the late 19th century. The work and other works in Segan's first Seattle exhibit, held at Temple de Hirsch Sinai in February 1980, was reviewed in an article-art review in The Seattle Weekly, February 1980, by Sue Ann Kendall (see About the Artist - Bibliography) $500.
1982 Pencil, colored pencil, ink. 40" H x 28" W	AN UNKNOWN AND NAMELESS MAN, A PIOUS G-D FEARING JEW.... $500.
Please click image to enlarge 1985 Mixed media Size: 53" H x 94" W Two drawings on paper in ink with colored pencil; painted wood frame and metallic thread. The five men depicted on the left were Polish Jewish Communists murdered in the prison between World War I and II	HOMAGE TO PAWIAK PRISON, WARSAW Pawiak Prison was a notorious prison for over one-hundred years. Located at ulica Dzilena 24-26 (ulica is Polish for street), it opened in 1835 under the rule of Czar Nicholas I of Russia, whose empire then included Warsaw. After the German occupation of Poland during World War II, the Nazi's imprisoned one-hundred thousand Poles at Pawiak, including Jews and Catholics. 37,000 of these prisoners were murdered in the prison, and 60,000 were deported to concentration camps. Pawiak was blown up by the Gestapo in July 1942. (Thanks to Seattle Public Library Humanities Dept. Reference staff for information from the book Poland's Holocaust (author: Tadeusz Piotrowski, 1998, McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C. & London) Among the political prisoners murdered and/or imprisoned there over the decades were Jewish political prisoners: trade unionists, anarchists, socialists, Bolsheviks, and Communists, among others. The drawing on the left was begun on a mountainside in Rytro, a village in the Carpathian mountains of southern Poland, summer '84. The drawing on the right was also begun outdoors in Rytro, both of haystacks. $1,200.
1985 Please click to enlarge Drawing: Ink & colored pencil with collage and artified wood picture-frame.	THE JEWISH CEMETERY - CORFU, GREECE BACKGROUND NOTES The blue stone and the shell were collected on the beach in Corfu. Corfu is the English version of the Greek Kerkira. $2,000. (Available for a benefactor or benefactors to present to a synagogue or an art museum in the U.S., Greece, or Israel, thanks. The benefactor can receive a tax deduction)
1984-87. Please click to enlarge Paper size: 31" H x 26" W Ink, watercolor, charcoal, white ink, with rubbers stamps, postage stamps, "Witness Signatures" and fortune-cookie fortune from Kau-Kau Restaurant, Seattle: "He who suffers remembers."	ELIE'S SIN Exhibitions: 1987 Gracie's Restaurant on Broadway, Seattle 1989-90 Fear of Others / La Peur de l'Autre - Art Against Racism / L'art contre le Racisme - In Search of Tolerance / En quete de tolerance, International Exhibition Against Racism, Vancouver, Canada. ( Sponsored by the Arts-in-Action Society, Vancouver, B.C.) 1990-91 Trans-Canadian Tour with Fear of Others; included an exhibition in Sacramento, California. Publications: Fear of Others Exhibit catalog, 1989; Claudine Pommier, editor. Collections: Collection of the artist, 1984-1998 University Congregational Church, Seattle, 1999-2002 Collection of the artist since 2003 Background Notes $20,000.
Ca. 1980's. Ink on matboard, with white penciling. 11 15/16" H x 8" W	BUND MEMORIAL SCULPTURE DRAWING Inspired by a memorial sculpture to the Bund in Warsaw's Jewish cemetery. The Bund was a large Jewish labor organization in Poland. In the pre-war decades, tens of thousands of Bund members could be seen at labor rallies, funerals and other large public gatherings. $95.
Please click to enlarge 2006 Ink, gouache, colored pencil on paper. Paper size: 22 1/4" X 16 1/8" (56.5 x 40.5 cm) Frame: 24 5/8" x 18 1/8" (62 x 45.5 cm)	THESE KIDS AND THE OLD WOMAN REALLY ENJOYED THEIR HOLIDAY WALK TO THE AUSCHWITZ GAS CHAMBERS Drawn from a photograph in The Auschwitz Album - The Story of a Transport (pub. by Yad Vashem/Jerusalem & the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim, 2002); page 249, the photo is captioned "An old Jewish woman takes care of the little children on the way to the gas chambers."

INTERNATIONAL SHOAH ART MUSEUM & HOLOCAUST / GENOCIDE EDUCATION THROUGH ART AqIVA KENNY SEGAN, ARTIST & EDUCATION DIRECTOR
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