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This sculpture was created by Czech survivor Naomi Blake. As a child, she was interned in Auschwitz, where many of her family died. The ten red roses around the sculpture are dedicated to her cousins, who all died in Auschwitz.

Blake studied at Hornsey School of Art. She began exhibiting her work in 1962, and her sculptures are permanently exhibited and held in collections all over the world. Two more of her pieces can be found at the University of Leicester and in London, where she now lives.

The Holocaust Centre

Newark

Title

Abandoned

Medium

fibreglass (?)

Measurements

H 211 x W 77 x D 23 cm

Accession number

HCSC003

Work type

Statue

Inscription description

on plaque: Dedicated to my family and friends that never returned, / For their courage and dignity. / Hebrew text reads: / Right side / Out of the depths I have called Thee, O Lord / Psalm 130 v 1 / Left side / Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our / affliction and our oppression. / Psalm 44 v 24

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