Alan Moore - Australia
(1914-2015)

Blind man in Belsen (1947)

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FROM AUSTRALIA: Alan Moore served in the Australian Air Force during WWII, but issues with his leg led him to become the war artist. His works created during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp provide a stark, horrifying testament to the horrors of Nazi rule

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27 de diciembre, Día Internacional de Conmemoración en Memoria de las Víctimas del Holocausto (International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust).
BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, 1945, ERIC TAYLOR

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Art Matters (4/6): Some of the art shows the fragility of life and the struggle to survive in adverse conditions. There are profoundly moving drawings by artists such as Eric Taylor who was at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp to record the suffering of the survivors.

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On the 75th anniversary of VE Day we also remember those who perished. This harrowing image was made in Bergen-Belsen by Marianne Grant, a Jewish artist. She uniquely recorded her experiences of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps https://t.co/D7A4AR1bZO

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Renee Salt survived Auschwitz-Birkenau before being taken to Bergen-Belsen with her mother. After many years of suffering, they were liberated on 15th April 1945 by the British Army. However Renee’s mother sadly died in hospital 12 days later.

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Leslie Cole was born 1910

Prolific he was a government artist and he saw the grizzly scenes at first hand

In total the has 25 paintings of his on show

Cole died
1976

His work will help make sure we will never forget the

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This is my OC Arthur “Art” Morningstar from my webcomic Republik. He was a child miner from a small town in North England from a broken family. He went on to join WW2 and adopted the other lead Alyssa from Belsen concentration camp. Now he’s taken her beyond the [1]

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would have been 90 today...

“How wonderful it is that nobody need to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank born in 1929, killed at age 15 in February or March 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, E. Hanover, Germany

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Eternal Exile. After WW1, Italian Jewish Artist, Arturo Nathan began psychoanalysis & took up painting as therapy. He painted many shipwrecks & exiles. He was deported to Germany in 1944, "first to the concentration camp of Bergen ­Belsen, then Biberach, where he died" - aged 53.

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Was this why you were busy noble? XD

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Just completed oil painting re the passing of my Jewish Grandmother Agnes, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. I had a very emotional experience making this. I painted her as young again and free from suffering, reaching out into the universe, while I remain, looking up.

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I illustrated some of the women for the upcoming rd exhibition. Ella Wentworth Dyne Steel was one of the first civilians to enter Belsen with the UNRRA. https://t.co/NwWWUa1WEV

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My Great Grandad Chaplain CMK Parsons' photos of 'Hell on Earth" https://t.co/Fv9JnAqgdu

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My grandmother Agnes survived Auschwitz & B. Belsen. Her parents & family were all murdered. I made this in 2005.

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