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Sara Atzmon's Art Gallery
Glorious Brothers, 1992

art_tn_gloriousbrothers.jpg (16808 bytes)My neighbors in Bergen-Belsen were Dutch Jews, among them Anna Frank. But I never met them until after they had been killed. They died by the hundreds. They were naked, and I will always remember the special color of their skin - yellowish gray - from being locked away from the sun for years. They were the models for my work, but I never succeeded in reproducing the color of their skin. Maybe I did not want to.

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From Lisa Katz,
Your Guide to Judaism.
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