The word “Holocaust” serves as an international code for the most monstrous event in the history of mankind. Today, only few of the survivors are still alive and they are naturally diminishing in number. The tendency of history to fade out due to biology stands in direct relationship to the diminishing life expectancy of the last witnesses to the Holocaust… And the feeling of helplessness involved in this awareness is probably the reason why we occasionally start a fight against time… Transferring the trauma onto canvas means having the courage to painfully return to the depth of hell, for the sake of keeping the collective memory alive. This is also an assurance that the emotions felt within one’s heart would always be remembered beyond the historical facts…

 

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