Posted on 12/05/2012 2:39:51 PM PST by lowbridge
Carl Michael von Hausswolff mixed the ashes from the infamous Nazi facility with water to compose a small painting of grey streaks. The work now hangs in a gallery in the Swedish city of Lund.
But Salomon Schulman, a leading voice in Sweden's Jewish community who lost many relatives to the Holocaust, has condemned the painting as "revolting".
"Who knows," he wrote in a letter to a local newspaper. "Maybe some of the ashes originated from my relatives. No one knows where they were deported: all my mother's siblings and their children, and my grandparents.
"I will never go to this gallery and it as view the desecration of Jewish bodies," he added. "I am sickened by his work and obsession with necrophilia."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Well said.
IF... those are even Holocaust ashes at all. Nobody’d know if he really used someone else’s ashes or ashes of animals.
Do you mean Sweden or Switzerland? They all look alike to me, too, but they are different countries.
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