The Scream

of  the Jews that did not have many chances to survive the Nazi savagery / barbarian regim.

The statue was created by Itzhak Offer and was photographed at the memory institution of the Vohlyn community, in my home city.

Thanks for looking

Thanks for looking.

Pnina, this is a very evocative photo after your explanation. I kept a momment of silence and no need for more words...

Thanks for joining a whole country in  a moment of silence, and you are right that no words are needed, but memories are needed for the world to remember !  so another holocaust  will not happan ever ! again .  

The hands are closed into fists -- hmmm...    I think Holocausts will happen in the future.  Anyway, Ilike the greyish backdrop and the starkness.  Looks more like a muteness   nothing changes

I'm not sure if this is a cry of despair or defiance.  I hope it's defiance.  A B&W version would be striking and would minimize the intrusion of the warm brown chairs in the foreground.

Powerful work! I'd like to see a little more detail of the sculpture in the foreground.

Donna ,Jeff .and Linda. I will answer to the 3 of you.

 

I think that it is both the scream (it is how the holocaust institute calls it),but the closed hands has the defiance as well.

The scuptor was born in Poland , but he came to Israel in 1935 so he probably created the statue in Israel. He died a( 1910 1998).

Jeff, Iconverted it to B-W and it really was easier tp delete the chairs

Linda, it looks very good on my screen, but I lighted it and upload the B/W version. thanks again to all of you.

Yes, a very touching image. It does not only depict a scream, but makes one feel the scream coming from within. The scream of horror of what we are so capable of. Man has proven this capability throughout the ages, and I remain skeptical that man will not continue to do so both by small acts, and by those such as the holocaust. Sorry to be so cynical, but you know that's me.

On a slightly different note, I got a feeling that this could almost be equally representative of the Twin Towers outrage. The ruin bear a resemblance, and certainly the man's reaction of screaming in terror, pain, agony and horror would be similar to the feeling seen and felt by many in New York.

You are so right! it was created for the  holocaust,(as far as I know),and it may be  very well that he thought about the human horrors in general, as the  disaster is very well seen ,not only in its hands but around him.The statue's name is what the house is calling it, but it fits very well to the  twins terrible disaster, and to every terrible events ,  inflicted by men toward other human being(s).

 

Thanks Dave, for writing your impressions.

I see: Yes I can ... a great message. BR JV

The sculpture, I'm sure, is a very moving one and tells an important story and epitomizes the human emotion and grand horror of these awful events. The photo, however, doesn't do much for me. It doesn't quite capture the 3-dimensionality of the sculpture and doesn't really, for me, capture much of the emotion in it, photographically speaking. I certainly respond to the content, but by abstraction from knowing what it's about, not any more so because I'm viewing it here. It feels like a recording but, in my mind, does not photographically do the message justice.

Fred, thanks for writing what you feel.

The statue is very thin, nearlly flat,  has not the usual 3D of statues. It is "colated" to the  white  wall so there is not any DOF to work with, let alone people seating here and there.(it was a lecture for the holocaust(not at the memorial day). I still think that  even with its flatness, it has a strong symbolic atmospher for a disaster( as Dave wrote it can represent the scream when the twin disaster took place, Boston, and you name it..)  .If you nothed  the name of the file is " Museum of never again". Every year at the holocaust memorial day I add a photo to that file,I see it as a candle in the memory of the  horrible atrocity.

A really beautiful result, very nicely composed too, Pnina!

 

Hi Pnina! Coming back to your portfolio, I remember one photo I took in Paris, I want to show it to you, thanks:

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16641299

 

A very powerful and agonizing artwork! Thank you for taking the time to photograph it and share it with us. Very well done. Thank you Pnina.

Pnina, fantastic creation for the great story, nice contrast & perspective also, and good layers & details in dark, very well composed!       Best regards

All of you. It is a very painful time for my people,and my family.