holocaust remembrance day

a candle for remembrance

January 27, 2022UncategorizedElie Weisel, holocaust remembrance day, photographyAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Lighting a candle for remembrance once again on this Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

“When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe,”

Words of the late Elie Wiesel, author, humanitarian and survivor of Auschwitz, described as a “messenger to mankind” when he received his Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

never again

April 8, 2021ArtArt, Holocaust Memorial, holocaust remembrance day, ink drawing, never again, Remembrance, Yom HaShoahAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to honor the six million Jews, men women and children murdered by the Nazis. My ink drawing from today is of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin which we visited in 2007, as we remember and say, “Never Again.”

Yom HaShoah

May 2, 2019Art, Pen and Ink, UncategorizedEternal Flame, holocaust remembrance day, Jerusalem, pen and ink drawing, Yad Vashem, Yom HaShoahAndrew Seal Leave a comment

The Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, which I drew on July 11th 1967, for this Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2019.

“The Eternal Flame, burning from a base fashioned like a broken bronze goblet, continuously illuminates the Hall, its smoke exiting the building through an opening at the highest point of the ceiling. Before it stands a stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims, brought to Israel from the extermination camps.”

Quotation from the Yad Vashem website