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Alice Lok Cahana

Alice Lok Cahana

1929–2017

Nationality
United States
Occupation
painter

Alice Lok Cahana (February 7, 1929 – November 28, 2017) was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown
  2. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown

Biography

Alice Lok Cahana (February 7, 1929 – November 28, 2017) was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor. Lok Cahana was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps: her most well-known works are her writings and abstract paintings about the Holocaust. Her work celebrates Judaism and those murdered in the Holocaust by transforming the horror of their deaths into a testament to their lives. As she told Barbara Rose in the From Ashes to the Rainbow catalog interview, "I started to paint only about the Holocaust as a tribute and memorial to those who did not return, and I am still not finished."

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