A black-and-white print of a dramatic, religious toned scene. A family sits on the ground with a small child collapsed in a woman's arms and a man reaches toward the sky in desperation. In the background, another family looks onward and a small bird flies above their heads.
Ceramic figurine of a woman sitting on a stool with a puppy on her head holding a lunch container in her lap. She is wearing a yellow jacket with green pants that match the stool.
Ceramic figurine of a woman sitting on a stool with a puppy on her head holding a lunch container in her lap. She is wearing a yellow jacket with green pants that match the stool.
The outside of the volume has a metal edge attached to the binding and a plate with the phrase inscribed- 'In Spite of Everything.' The first part of the text is an extensive narrative about different aspects of the camp. The book changes to shiny laminated paper with stories of individuals from the camp with photographs.
The purpose of this volume is to broaden the historical perspective of the internment camp by questioning the meaning of the events that have been recorded. The children's statement and art work is over-laid on the shiny paper mixed with pressed flowers and photographic imagery.
The end of the series again quotes Anne Frank. The volume was completed in September 1994.
A metal box with lid contains the ninth volume. The Star of David is on the outside with stripped material on the inside, symbolizing the prison camp uniforms. A strap binds together the metal frame containing quotations from Exodus and quotations from Primo Levy and others on the reverse side.
The cover of the volume has a torn metal flower and 'Terezin-1944' is written on the edge of the binding. Inside the volume the text relates to the visit of the Danish Red Cross to Theresienstadt. There is some factual information and text laid over photographic imagery - one being a famous picture of a boy captured in the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
The art and writings of the children continues to be reproduced as well. The end quotations are taken from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Cry of the Children.' Also, there is a time table for those who could be acknowledged and identified.
The volume was signed and completed in August 1994. The handmade paper was a mixture of hemp, abaca fibers. small wild flowers, sheets laminated with various colors and art tissue.
The outer book cover for this volume is three-sided and wraps around the inner display box. The inner display box has two drawers along the side with glass panels, wire and pellets symbolizing extermination.
In the first book inside the top drawer, excerpts from the life of author-flyer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (missing in action in 1944) and excerpts from his book 'The Little Prince.'
The second drawer has an eye glass case with a quotation on the cover from Talmud, 'Whoever saves one life saves the entire world...' Inside is a pair of ruined wire spectacles.
Inside the other book reads 'To produce a mighty book you much choose a mighty theme.' It continues with a narrative of the site and history of the area around Terezin. The volume continues with biblical quotations and quotations from inmates written on copper applied over wild flowers on the handmade appear inside the book.
The art work and writings of children spiral around consecutive pages of the book ending with a citation of references to the appropriate sources. Book completed in June or July 1994.
'The outer box of this volume has a false bottom and the inside cover contains a tribute to Anne Frank- ' In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good...' Reproduced is a photograph of Anne Frank.
In the upper compartment is housed a book that has quotations from children and other inmates with actual references to the concentration camp and its history. Embossed and de-embossed images are embedded on each page of the book. In the corner of each page is a copper plate with painted or stenciled page numbers.
The art work echoes the drawings of the children. One page has the hand prints of the artist's four year old daughter. On the bottom of some pages are quotations from famous contemporary people - Martin Luther King, etc. Sources are cited for the text.
Acknowledgment is made regarding the hand-cut Hebrew calligraphy on the outer wrapper of the column - 'Know before whom ye stand...' There is a bottom compartment in the case with a pull-out tray - the false floor pays tribute to Anne Frank.
The book inside has a tri-fold cover with three small books inside. The books reproduce three of the most famous collages, originals housed in the Jewish State Museum. Collage 1 refers to the poem ' I never saw another butterfly,' by Eva Stenova; Collage 2 is 'Views of Terezin,' by Hanus Weinberg; Collage 3 pays tribute to aviator-author Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The metal outer case of this volume has a plate repeating Anne Frank's 'In Spite of Everything.” This book links an actual person's life to the events in the camp. There are quotes by other people relating the Holocaust to a broader political context: one by Vivianna Hererra, 1983, a Chilean political prisoner, one by Alicia Partnoy, an Argentinian, one by a Kurdish poet.
The art motifs are repetitive of children's drawings with emphasis on collages, their primary mode of expression. There is a photographic reproduction done by Margaret Bourke- White of liberated prisoners from Buchenwald. At the end of the book the artist acknowledges his sources, with the inclusion of a brief time-line.
This volume was completed December 1993/January 1994.
This volume begins with the oldest biblical text from Jerusalem. There are circular insets within the book upon which text and leaves are integrated and the names of the young authors are vividly noted as well. The flowers and the various types of paper are more colorful and elaborate.
Some of the text refers to factual life in the camp; other writings express longings for birds, flowers - things of natural life from their own environment. Also, there are expressions of fear of the unknown. At the end the artist gives acknowledgment to his sources - the attributions are carefully cited.
The volume was completed between September and October of 1993.
The outer case of the book is made of black cardboard embossed with plant matter. The book cover for the inner book contains a latch attached to a painted gold filigree leaf. A poem inscribed on the leaf - 'She is somewhere in the sunlight/her tears are in the falling rain/she calls me in the windswept song/ and with the flower she comes again.'
The book opens in sections with a pressed flower tied by a brass leaf. The other side shows a complex design which is integrated within the paper itself. The drawings and text written by the children are rendered on large pressed leaves.
On other pages the artwork and text surround the pictorial leaf theme so the reader must follow the movement of the writing around the pictorial imagery. On the last page appears a statement about the paper making process. The handmade paper is sheets made from abaca, a banana tree from the Philippines, cotton fiber and Pacific Northwest hard woods. The edges of the sheets dipped in colored liquid during the paper-making process. The end of the volume folds out with a catalog of the drawings and poems; the work Terezin is inlaid in metal on the final portion of the volume.
This volume was completed in August 1994.
