SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In the early years of World War II, Charlotte Salomon, a 23-year-old Jewish artist from Berlin, fled to the south of France where she shut herself into a hotel room and spent two years feverishly painting the history of her life. Sh…
A Celebration of the Skill of Emerging Victorian Artists at the National Gallery of Victoria
MELBOURNE.- Opening 31 March, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Top Arts: VCE 2010, a celebration of the skill and imagination of emerging Victorian artists. Now in its seventeenth year, Top Arts will display 55 works by 53 students from go…
A Celebration of the Skill of Emerging Victorian Artists at the National Gallery of Victoria
MELBOURNE.- Opening 31 March, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Top Arts: VCE 2010, a celebration of the skill and imagination of emerging Victorian artists. Now in its seventeenth year, Top Arts will display 55 works by 53 students from go…
Memorial at Site of Auschwitz Oven Builders
ERFURT, GERMANY (AP).- A new memorial is opening in Germany that examines the role played by educated professionals such as the engineers and architects who created the crematoria ovens for Auschwitz to help carry out the Holocaust. The exhibit is hous…
Polish Court Sentences Swede to Nearly Three Years in Prison Over Auschwitz Theft
KRAKOW (REUTERS).- A Polish court sentenced a Swedish man on Thursday to nearly three years in prison for masterminding the theft of the infamous “Arbeit macht frei” sign from the entry gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. The sign — an en…
Auschwitz Memorial Acquires Nazi Medical Devices
WARSAW (AP).- The Auschwitz memorial in Poland says it has obtained around 150 medical instruments believed to have been used by the Nazis in experiments on the death camp inmates. Memorial spokesman Bartosz Bartyzel said Thursday the gynecological an…