Alice Lok Cahana

Alice Lok Cahana
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.

Art career

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]

In media

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]

References

  1. ^ Women Artists of The American West, "Alice Lok Cahana Biography"
  2. ^ Johnson, Patricia C. "Pope welcomes Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana's No Names painting to Vatican Museum" "The Houston Chronicle", Nov. 9, 2006
  3. ^ Holden, Stephen. The Last Days (1998) FILM REVIEW; In Hungary, the Final Days of the 'Final Solution' "The New York Times", February 5, 1999