A Holocaust Memorial ART SERIES

Larry Lagin
28"x22" acrylic painting on canvas
2016

A young boy (Yehiel Mintzberg) in athletic shorts, before the outbreak of the war. He lived in Poland during the war, until October 1942, when he was deported to Treblinka, and murdered. He was ten years old. Based on Yad Vashem Museum Photo Archives photo submitted by his aunt, Lola Politanski from Israel.

Larry Lagin
28"x22" acrylic painting on canvas
2016

Two young (girl) cousins shortly before they were smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto. A Lithuanian family hid the children and both girls survived the war. Kovno, Lithuania, August 1943. Based on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #10945. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2016

Two young brothers, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944. Based on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #06546. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Larry Lagin
28"x22" acrylic painting on canvas
2020

3A - A page from an anti-semitic coloring book featuring a portrait of a Jew drawn by the German caricaturist known as Fips. [Ca. 1933–39]. In the upper left-hand corner is a logo featuring a Star of David superimposed over a caricature of a Jewish face. The caption under the star states that “without a solution to the Jewish question, there will be no salvation for mankind.” Based on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #042034.

Larry Lagin
28"x22" acrylic painting on canvas
2020

3B - A synagogue in flames in Siegen, Germany, during Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938. It is referred to “The Night of Broken Glass” because of shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues and homes. Over 30,000 Jewish males were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. Based on Yad Vashem Photo Archives #136BO9.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2016

Family members say goodbye to a child through a fence at the ghetto's central prison where children, the sick, and the elderly were held before deportation to Chelmno during the "Gehsperre" action
Deportation of Jewish children from the Lodz ghetto, Poland, during the "Gehsperre" Action, September 1942. Based on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #50365. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Courtesy of Jacob Igra.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2016

A young boy with his hands up being driven from the Warsaw ghetto. Based on a photo the “Stroop Report”, which reads: “Pulled from bunkers by force.” The 1943 “Stroop report” was submitted as a prosecution exhibit at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–1946. Nuremberg document 1061-PS (USA-275). Based on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo #26543A. Copyright of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Larry Lagin
28"x22" acrylic painting on canvas
2018

Base on a photograph from the book "Meczenstwo Walka Zaglada Zydow w Polsce 1939-1945 / Martyrdom Struggle Extermination of Jews in Poland" (Polish)
by Adam Rutkowski.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2017

Deportation of Jewish children from the Lodz ghetto, Poland, during the "Gehsperre" Action, September 1942. Based on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #50365. Copyright of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Courtesy of Jacob Igra.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2017

A Jewish woman walks towards the gas chambers with three young children and a baby in her arms, after going through the selection process on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. Based on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #77217. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2017

Surviving children of the Auschwitz camp walk out of the children's barracks, soon after liberation. Poland, after January 27, 1945. Based on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #70262. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photograph courtesy of Lydia Chagoll.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2017

Camp survivors from Buchenwald's "Children's Block 66", a special barracks for children, soon after liberation. Germany, after April 11, 1945.
Federation Nationale des Deportes et Internes Resistants et Patriots.

28"x22" acrylic painting on canvas
2017

With his coat and suitcase in hand, Yisrael Meir (Lulek) Lau, a member of the Buchenwald children’s transport, prepares to leave the OSE children’s home in Ecouis for Palestine. Ecouis, France, June-July 1945. Based on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #27335. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

28"x22" acrylic painting on canvas
2017

Eight-year-old Yisrael Meir (Lulek) Lau is held by a fellow Buchenwald survivor, Elizar Schiff, as they arrive in Palestine aboard the RMS “Mataroa.” Haifa, Palestine, July 15, 1945. Based on Central Zionist Archives Photograph Reference #NKH403010.

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2017

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, currently lives in Israel, and is Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Chairman of Yad Vashem. Based on Wikipedia photograph. Copyrighted free use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael_Meir_Lau

22"x28" acrylic painting on canvas
2016
A Yellow Holocaust memorial candle is modeled after a traditional Jewish memorial candle that burns for 24 hours during periods of mourning and on the anniversary of the death of a family member. The concept of a special memorial candle being lit on Yom HaShoah was originally developed in the late 1970s by survivors of the Holocaust. The candle's yellow wax reminds us of the yellow arm band and stars which Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis.