Lorie Novak
!!! just reblogging…
Holograms of Holocaust survivors let crucial stories live on
History preserved: As the aging Holocaust survivor population dwindles, USC scientists scurry to create life-size 3D holograms that can answer viewer questions through Siri-like voice-recognition technology.
Can’t Stop thinking about work . This exhibition along with Sanja Ivekovic has been the highlights of my art going this year.
MoMA | Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972.
More links:
Bio from Polish Cultural Institute
Alina Szapocznikow archive at Museum of Modern Art in Archive
Even thought their work is very different than mine, both Sanja and Alina’s work have more parallels to my interest than most artists whose work I can think of.
< ^ : links to projects in the archive
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust
Marianne Hirsch
So excited to have made the cover image.
It’s an amazing book bringing together Marianne’s important writings on postmemory. Her writings have influenced me tremendously and I learn so much when she writes about me.
What a name.
Millions of documents containing details about victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution during World War II still exist today. Through the World Memory Project, you can help make these victims’ records searchable online and restore the identities of people the Nazis tried to erase from history, one person at a time.
via World Memory Project.
The Boy: An Icon For Childhoods Lost In Holocaust NPR
The look of terror and confusion blankets a young boy’s face as he raises his arms in surrender to a German soldier pointing a gun at him.The image, captured in a photograph during World War II, has been seared into the minds and souls of millions since it was seen. But the identity of the little boy — his thin, fragile legs visible beneath a long coat — remains unknown. And as historian Dan Porat tells Scott Simon, his name will likely never be known.
Color footage from 1940s and 1950s, recently discovered in a Boston attic, of immediate aftermath of Holocaust in Europe and early years of Israel.
Liberation of Buchenwald & Dachau
1945 in color
shocking
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Anne Frank of film – donated to Anne Frank but couple who were getting married and noticed Anne looking out of her balcony.
Trummerflora: On the Topography of Terrors – Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
This four-part work proposes an interactive memorial that is not a monument. The first part is the trummerflora, or rubble flowers, made of the materials of the site itself and of those which find their way to the site without human agency. The second part is the signage which would tell the story of the history of the site during the Nazi period, location by location. The third part already exists in a small wooden Quonset hut on the site, called the Topograpie of Terrors, where the story of the activities of the Gestapo, from its inception in the early Nazi party, is told in word and image. The fourth part would exist in a room yet to be built next to the Topographie of Terrors building, which would duplicate the building’s shape but not its contents, serving instead as a memorial to the victims.
The Untold Stories: The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR
My dearest,
Before I die, I am writing a few words,
We are about to die, five thousand innocent people,
They are cruelly shooting us,
Kisses to you all,
Mira…”
