Untold Testimonials, along with its brethren of the post-Holocaust art genre, cherishes and attempts to bring to mind and record the rich pre-World War II lives of all of those individuals who perished, their excruciating suffering during the war; and their ultimate deaths.

"Living in Israel for two years, befriended by Holocaust Survivors whose tattoos were badges of their suffering, and suffering of the world, I searched for some way to understand and express what all of my Israeli friends already knew and felt.

This piece features the enameled letters of the Hebrew word Zachor (“to remember”), which are trapped behind bared wire.  The tops of the letters drip with red, a symbol of the blood spilled during the Holocaust.

The work depicts four stages in the lives of Jewish children in Europe during the Holocaust period. In 1938 they are shown as normal, happy children in their decreasing denizens of the ghettos. Then, with the deportations to the death camps, their numbers radically diminish. Finally, the very few who survived joyfully find their freedom and destiny in Israel.

Kristallnacht , November 9, 1938, the Night of Broken Glass, is represented by this mosaic. Kristallnacht is considered to be the turning point in German policy towards the Jews and the beginning of the Holocaust. Jews were attacked and killed in the streets, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. Approximately 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Those who resisted were shot.

It would be an impossible task for the most accomplished writer or artist to write a book or draw several pictures which would fully portray every aspect of five thousand years of Jewish history. This picture was drawn by Joseph Lovy after long research and its purpose is not to serve as an encyclopedia, but rather to refresh the observers' familiarity with our tragic past and hope to visualize a peaceful future.

The ghosts of
the camps
Climb into our
consciousness.
We must
NEVER FORGET.

Twisted into the barbed wire fence are names . . . Buchenwald, Bergen Belsen, Dachau, Auschwitz, Treblinka ... Camouflaged into the shoes the number 6,000,000 and written in the dirt surrounding the children: 1 ½ Million.

"Dedicated in memory of all the inmates who did not survive the brutality of the roll call; may they rest in peace."