This important work represents Arthur Szyk’s involvement in raising awareness in the United States of the Holocaust taking place in Europe. On March 9, 1943, the show We Will Never Die, written by Ben Hecht, was performed in Madison Square Garden as part of a memorial pageant calling to rescue the Jews of Europe. Within […]
The first train to Auschwitz
On the morning of March 15, 1943, the residents of the Baron Hirsch neighbourhood in Thessaloniki, which was located by the railway station, were packed into livestock wagons, which were overloaded to twice their capacity. The cars were shut and sealed. The train departed for Poland with the first 2,800 deportees. After a tortuous, five-day journey, […]