Portraits of children to remember Holocaust victims. Stolen Niñez on display

On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, an exhibition by Israeli artist Patricia Shira Mano Tolentino, titled Niñez rubata, will be on display at the Magazzino Gallery space on the ground floor of Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice, open to the public from Jan. 21 to Feb. 4, 2020.

The exhibition is inspired by portraits of children in the Jerusalem Museum of Memory. "The idea for the Niñez Rub ata project was born almost a year ago while looking at photos of Holocaust victims, specifically those from the Warsaw Ghetto. It struck me to see a child in the photo titled A child dressed in rags sitting on a ghetto street and I decided to paint a small portrait of just his face, his frightened expression. I then started looking for other children to portray and came up with the idea of creating a wall composed of oil portraits of the Warsaw Ghetto, inspired by the work of French artist Christian Boltansky. This project is about memory, and aims to combat the fall into oblivion, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denialism," said the artist.

On January 22 at 5 p.m. there will be a meeting Niñez rubata to remember the children victims of the Shoah and against the injustices of yesterday and today at the Jewish Museum of Venice. Speakers will include Michela Zanon, co-director of the Jewish Museum of Venice; Roberta Semeraro, curator of the exhibition; Iris Peynado, project organizer. Patricia Shira Mano Tolentino, in dialogue with the reading of poems by Rosalia Ramirez, will talk about her experience/realization and the need and to express herself on the theme of the Shoah.

The exhibition is curated by Roberta Semeraro and is presented and supported by Iris Peynado.

Meetings with classes from Venetian schools dedicated to the theme of Holocaust Remembrance are planned during the exhibition period, and archival materials from the Yad Vashem World Center for Holocaust Remembrance in Jerusalem will be presented to the public.

Portraits of children to remember Holocaust victims. Stolen Niñez on display

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