| Alice Lok Cahana | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1929 (age 94–95) Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Known for | Holocaust survivor |
| Website | |
| www.alicelokcahana.com | |
Alice Lok Cahana (born 1929, in Budapest, Hungary) is an Hungarian Holocaust survivor.[1] She was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps. She is most well known for her writings and abstract paintings about the Holocaust. Much of her work is a tribute to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved her father during the war.
Art career
Cahana is an abstract painter whose work deals with her experiences during World War II, as a Holocaust survivor of multiple concentration camps. In 2006, her piece "No Names" was added to the Vatican Museum's Collection of Modern Religious Art and since then is on permanent display at the museum in Rome, Italy.[2] Her work appears in multiple prestigious museum collections around the world including Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and The United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
In media
Cahana was one of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors whose story was featured in the Steven Spielberg 1999 Academy Award winning documentary movie, The Last Days.[3] Her writing was featured in The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 [4] She also features in Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
Personal life
Cahana married Rabbi Moshe Cahana in Israel. They emigrated to Sweden where their first son, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, was born. They finally settled in Houston where Rabbi Michael Cahana and Rina Cahana were born.
External links
References
- ↑ Women Artists of The American West, "Alice Lok Cahana Biography"
- ↑ Johnson, Patricia C. "Pope welcomes Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana's No Names painting to Vatican Museum" "The Houston Chronicle", Nov. 9, 2006
- ↑ Holden, Stephen. The Last Days (1998) FILM REVIEW; In Hungary, the Final Days of the 'Final Solution' "The New York Times", February 5, 1999
- ↑ ed. Bill Collins The Best Spiritual Writing 2011
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