Art from the Ashes
Excerpted from Diller Fund Grant, Osher-Marin Jewish Community Center: "As first-hand memories of the Holocaust recede into history and the generation most intimately affected by its horrors grows older, new generations struggle for a poignant way of evoking the memory of the lost world of European Jewish life. Toward this end, painter and photographer Helene Fischman, a highly respected Bay area artist and educator, created "artist residencies" for herself in former Nazi territory. In Terezín/Terezinstadt, Czech Republic, she created an artist studio in a crumbling, former Nazi Barrack. In Oświęcim/Auschwitz, Poland, she spent two months painting in an old storage room formerly used for munitions at the Auschwitz Jewish Center/Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot, the town's only surviving synagogue...Click here for complete statement
Articles & Publicity:
• Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 2, 2014
• Alexandra Wall, "Bay area artist hopes to turn horror into hope at Auschwitz," Northern California Jewish Bulletin, June 4, 2004.
• Alexandra Wall, " 'Art from the Ashes,' opens window on death camps," Northern California Jewish Bulletin, April 14, 2006.

Down Cellar:
Shimshon Klieger's family home
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Five-Thirty:
Shimshon Klieger's family home
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Living Room:
Shimshon Klieger's family home
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Hallway:
Shimshon Klieger's family home
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Staircase:
Shimshon Klieger's family home
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Children's Target
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Ohře River:
Terezín street sign
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Descending A Staircase:
Self-Portrait in former Nazi barrack (After Marcel Duchamp, "Nude Descending a Staircase")
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Honey:
Oświęcim Farmer's Market
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Renewal: Snail eating moss on
tombstone
in reconstructed Jewish cemetary
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Jacob's Ladder:
View down pool ladder, reflecting rain water
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Something Broken:
Rubble from 2002 floods
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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On Your Mark:
Diving block, prison swimming pool
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Old Spokes: Broken bicycles in former munitions warehouse
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Leader of the Pack:
Street kitty in Terezín
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Sinking:
Former prison bathroom
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Winter in Oświęcim:
The Lost Shabbos
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Spring in Oświęcim:
The Lost Shabbos
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Summer in Oświęcim:
The Lost Shabbos
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Fall in Oświęcim:
The Lost Shabbos
Oświęcim, Poland
2004
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Remember I Am With You
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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This is Not a Prison Camp
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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Ner Tamid (Eternal Light)
Terezín, Czech Republic
2003
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