Holocaust & Humanity
Holocaust and
Humanity – an exhibition by Moshe Galili
The exhibition is in three parts.
1.
The
Holocaust period from 1933 to 1945.
2.
A personal
reflection on the
3.
The
Horrors in
The paintings are a witness to my past and my hopes for the future when humanity may find a peaceful co-existence.
Death comes in different disguises,
With rage or smiles,
With promises and lies
There is nothing to be afraid of.
You will be all right.
July 24. 1922. The League of Nations granted
From 6th to 15th July 1938 an International Conference
at
On May 17th 1939.The British government issued a White
Paper announcing severe restrictions on Jewish immigration to
In effect all doors were closed, leaving no escape from the Nazi slaughter.
Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pius XII) as the Papal foreign secretary to Pius XI negotiated and signed a Concordat with Austria in June 1933 and a Concordat with the Nazi regime of Germany in July 1933, effectively silencing the Catholic opposition to the racists and aggressive policies of the German chancellor, Adolf Hitler.
10th November 1938.
The Nazis launched a murderous pogrom against the
Jewish citizens of
Pius XII Blessing the Fascists’ Arms
One day I was puzzled
to see a full colour front page on the Sunday Newspaper in
Himmler and Heydrich in Front of the Gas Chamber.
On the 20th January 1942 at Wannsee, just outside Berlin, an afternoon tea party took place where the leading Gestapo leaders decided to implement the Fuhrer’s directive, that all the Jews, men, women and children under the grip of the Third Reich’s must be exterminated.
When the poison was poured into a hermetically sealed room the hundreds of prisoners would take up to thirty minutes to die in agony.
When the steel doors of the death trap were closed, the powdered poison was poured from above, suffocating the people below.
The burned Martyrs’ souls rise to Heaven.
After the liberation in 1945 some of the survivors of
the Nazi death camps returned to their birthplaces in
Raoul Wallenberg 4. August. 1912 --- ?
Wallenberg was the Swedish diplomatic envoy in
In January 1945 the Russian Red Army liberated
Andre Gromiko, the Russian Foreign minister, informed the Swedish government in 1957 that Raoul Wallenberg had died in his prison cell at Lubjanka on 10th July. 1947. However, other informants have referred to a Swede seen in the Siberian prison camps in later years during the 1970s.
The recent revival of the new wave of Anti-Semitism originates, not only from the extreme right, but also from the radical left wing intelligentsia and their fellow travellers. The dogmatic rhetoric mixed with virulent anti-Israeli propaganda is trying to equate the surviving Jews with the Nazi executioners.
The Nazis and their faithful henchmen enjoyed the humiliations and the murders that they inflicted on their victims.
Throughout the centuries clergymen, politicians, and artists have used the Passion of Christ for inciting hatred, violence and wars to fulfill their ambition and fantasies, forgetting or ignoring His teaching.
Judaism, Christianity, Islam all confess to the faith of Abraham but they still bitterly fight each other. Why?
Captives, who were hungry and weak, had to march, in all weathers, hundred of miles from death camp to death camp. They were herded by the Nazis who were fleeing from the advancing Allied troops. Any captive who was too tired to walk was shot.
Physically and mentally broken, the victims are walking resignedly to their fate. Going to take a shower, (in reality the gas chamber) and from there their bodies will be thrown into the flames of the crematorium.
“I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me”
Book of Isaiah 1:2
I have sometimes noticed, in Catholic churches, a statue, or a stained glass representation of a blindfolded young woman entitled “Synagogue”. I feel that representation of the Jewish faith is arrogant and offensive.
I hope my painting represents more truthfully the tragic historical facts of Judaism.
“For out of
And the word of the Lord from
Book of Isaiah 2: 3
Dust to Dust.
Where Do We Come From?
Where Are We Going?
We are Born and Love
We Toil and Fight
Then we Die
The Circle is Closed.
All over the world tens of millions of refugees (including nearly a million Jews from Moslem countries), have been forced to flee their homelands due to war, hate or famine, since the Second World War and have found refuge, hope and a peaceful and prosperous future in new homes. Only the Palestinian refugees have been prevented from settling down by the Arab leadership and have been kept in refugee camps for over fifty years.
The massacre of innocent people by racists and intolerant dictators in Europe also infected Africa: - in Biafra, Rwanda, The Congo, Sudan and many other countries, bringing horror and sufferings to their people.
The victims could not believe until the last moment that in the twentieth century a civilised nation could exterminate whole communities for religious differences.
