GABOR NEUMANN

"And so, within seven months, I lost my father, my brother  and my mother. I am the only one who survived. This is what the Germans did to us, these are things that should never be forgotten. On the other hand, we had our revenge: the survivor were able to raise magnificent families among them my self. This is the revenge and the consolation."

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The Holocaust was the murder  by Nazi Germany of six million Jews. While the Nazi persecution of the Jews began in 1933, the mass murder was committed during World War II. It took the Germans and their accomplices four and a half years to murder six million Jews. They were at their most efficient from April to November 1942-250 days in which they murdered some two and a half million Jews. They never showed any restraint, they slowed down only when they began to run out of Jews to kill, and they only stopped when the Allies defeated them.

There was no escape. The murder were not content with destroying the communities; they also traced each hidden Jews and hunted down each fugitive. The crime of being a Jews was so great, that every single one had to be put to death - the man, the woman, the children; the committed, the disinterested, the apostates, the healthy, and creative, the sickly and the lazy - all were meant to suffer and die, with no reprieve, no hope, no possible amnesty, nor chance for alleviation.

Most of the Jews of Europe were dead by 1945. A civilization that had flourished for almost 2,000 years was no more. The survivors - one from a town, two from  a host - dazed, emaciated, bereaved beyond measure, gathered the remnants of their vitality and the remaining sparks of their humanity, and rebuilt. They never meted out justice to their tormentors - for what justice could ever be achieved after such a crime? Rather, they turned to rebuilding: news families forever under the shadow of those absent; new life stories, forever warped by the wounds; new communities, forever haunted by the loss.

Jewish Child

A crying child is seen in the distance and cries louder as one approaches along this lonely path.

Garden of Meditation

 A Garden of Meditation some artist despict the Holocaust only in the dimensions of its horrors with concrete, metal and barbel Wire. I broadened the theme to include a serene and peaceful garden, dedicated to the memory of the beautiful European culture and its six million Jewish souls, now lost. The Garden is composed of a large plaza of Jerusalem stone, at 200-foot-diameter water lily pound and classic semicircular colonnade and arbor...all set against a backdrop of a dense green palm forest. 

                                         

THE LONELY PATH

 THE LONELY PATH - The next space is a dark and lonely stone tunnel illuminate by this slats of sunlight, the haunting voices of Israeli childrens singing songs from the Holocaust and the solemn memory of the camps carved into its walls. A crying child is seen in the distance and cries louder as one approaches along this lonely path.

A juxtaposition of spaces is created so that as one emerges from the dark and repressive tunnel and enters into the sculpture patio he experiences a burst of sunlight and a soaring space crowned only by the blue sky.