Shadows_Of_Auschwitz

Shadows Of Auschwitz Shadows of Auschwitz The Holocaust was from 1933 to 1939, where the Nazi’s made it their lifelong duty to ruin Jewish people. It started in 1933 by new German laws forcing Jewish people to quit certain jobs. In 1935, German Jews were stripped of their citizenship. Eventually, anti-Jewish regulations made it to where the Jewish couldn’t attend public schools, or walk in certain sections of German cities. Their businesses and properties were either seized or they were forced to sell them at bargain prices. Finally, the Nazi’s turned to physical destruction. They arrested Jewish men, and murdered innocent individuals. This riot became known as Kristallnacht, or the ‘Night of broken glass’. At Witness and Legacy, one collage, which I was very awe-struck by, was in it’s own separate room. The piece is called ‘Shadows of Auschwitz’, by Pearl Hirshfield. The equivocal space she uses is amazing. When you walk into the room, the walls are black, making it completely dark. The floor is a plane, also painted black. There are lines on the floor painted to make it look like a railroad track. All the colors she uses are light, holocaust, room, piece, mirrors, jewish, fence, felt, black, understand, train, shadows, pearl, made, about, think, survivors, read, halogen, each, collage, wall, walk, very, trying, track, slots, saw, really, people, paper, one, numbers, nazi’s, lords