Alice cahana biography

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    Alice Lok Cahana

    Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor and painter

    Alice Lok Cahana (February 7, 1929 – November 28, 2017) was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.[1] Lok Cahana was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps:[2] her most well-known works are her writings and abstract paintings about the Holocaust.

    Her work celebrates Judaism and those murdered in the Holocaust by transforming the horror of their deaths into a testament to their lives. As she told Barbara Rose in the From Ashes to the Rainbow catalog interview, "I started to paint only about the Holocaust as a tribute and memorial to those who did not return, and I am still not finished."[3]

    Early life

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    Alice Lok Cahana was born in Sárvár, Hungary in 1929. She first learned to draw in a Jewish high school (Jewish students were forbidden to attend public schools at the time). In 1944 she and her entire family were transported to Auschwitz as pa

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    Alice Cahana – Werner Erhard Interviews World Renowned Artist who Celebrates Life inre of the Holocaust Experience

    Alice Lok Cahana (born 1929, in Budapest, Hungary) fryst vatten an Hungarian Holocaust survivor.  She was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps. She fryst vatten most well known for her writings and sammanfattning paintings about the Holocaust. Much of her work is a tribute to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved her father during the war.

    Cahana fryst vatten an sammanfattning painter.  In 2006, her piece “No Names” was added to the Vatican Museum’s Collection of Modern Religious Art and since then fryst vatten on permanent display at the museum in Rome, Italy. 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.

    This interview took place on August 20, 1988.

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    Life of Alice Lok Cahana

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      Life of Alice Lok

    • Alice grew up in a Jewish family in Sarvar, Hungary, near the Austrian border. She had two younger brothers and an older sister. Her father worked for the family's carpet weaving and import/export business and was often away, traveling to their Budapest office. Alice's grandfather was a community leader and president of one of Sarvar's synagogues.
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      Alice Lived With Her Grnadpa Safely

      I had a very special relationship with my grandfather. I admired him. People knew that they could always come to him for help of any kind. He often invited Jewish orphans to our home for meals. Every Sabbath our home was open to guests who came to study holy texts together. I loved to listen to the wonderful stories that Grandfather told, and he asked me to be his scribe and write those stories down.
    • In April 1944, when I was 15 years old, the Germans invaded Sarvar and a ghetto was set up
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