Understanding Auschwitz and the Holocaust

"Shoah"

"The biblical word Shoah (which has been used to mean 'destruction' since the Middle Ages) became the standard Hebrew term for the murder of European Jewry as early as the early 1940s." 
(Yad Vashem - the World Holocaust Resource Centre)

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1. "Auschwitz: Understanding the Past, 

Facing the Future" by Gordon Cockburn (b.1944)

[2018 touring exhibition at The Beacon Museum]

2. "Shoah". Oil on canvass by Gordon Cockburn
[2018 touring exhibition, The Beacon Museum]

3. "Shoah - Destruction No 2" . 
Oil on board, by Gordon Cockburn

[2018 touring exhibition, The Beacon Museum]

4. "Ladies of Auschwitz: The Survivors"
Oil on canvass board, by Gordon Cockburn
[2018 touring exhibition, The Beacon Museum]

5. "Head Studies: From Sanity to Insanity"
Pastel on paper, by Gordon Cockburn
2018 touring exhibition, The Beacon Museum]
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 (Photographs of the artwork taken with permission) 

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"Auschwitz: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future"

This exhibition was a series of paintings, drawings and pastels about the WW2 by the Scottish artist Gordon Cockburn (b. 1944) at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria in 2018. Some of the artwork by Gordon Cockburn in the exhibition can be seen in the above images. The artist's interpretation of the horrors of those who were incarcerated at Auschwitz during the Second World War help the present day generations to understand the past and face the future. 

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