Alice Lok Cahana | |
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Born | 1929 (age 82–83) Sárvár, Hungary |
Nationality | Hungarian |
Occupation | Artist |
Known for | Holocaust survivor |
Website | |
www.alicelokcahana.com |
Alice Lok Cahana (born 1929, in Sárvár, Hungary) is an Hungarian Holocaust survivor.[1] She was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps. She is most well known for her writings and abstract paintings about the Holocaust.
Cahana is an abstract painter. In 2006, her piece "No Names" was added to the Vatican Museum's Collection of Modern Religious Art and since then is on permanent display at the museum in Rome, Italy.[2]
Cahana was one of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors whose story was featured in the Steven Spielberg 1999 Academy Award winning documentary movie, The Last Days.[3]