Shlomo Selinger

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Shlomo Selinger (or: Shelomo Selinger ) (born May 31, 1928 in Jaworzno , Poland ) is an Israeli - French sculptor .

Life

youth

Shlomo Selinger was born into a Jewish family in the Polish city of Jaworzno-Szczakowa , near Auschwitz . He received a traditional Jewish education but did not attend a religious school. In 1943 he and his father were deported to the Krenau ghetto . After the untimely death of his father, Shlomo was left alone.

Selinger lost his mother and two sisters during the Holocaust . He stayed one after the other in the Faulbrück, Gröditz , Marktstadt, Fifthichen, Groß-Rosen , Flossenbürg , Dresden , Leitmeritz satellite camps, and finally came to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . He took part in a death march twice. In 1945 he was found by a Red Army military doctor who found that he was breathing poorly. This Jewish officer took him to a field hospital and saved his life. For the next seven years, Selinger suffered from amnesia and could not remember anything about his ordeal.

Israel

In 1946 Selinger went on board the " Tel Hai " in the French port city of La Ciotat with the help of the British Army's Jewish Brigade . A group of young survivors from Germany, Belgium and France secretly steered the ship towards Palestine . The ship was boarded by the British Navy and brought to Haifa . Selinger came to the Atlit camp . After his release he went to Kibbutz Beit-Haarava. After its destruction during the Palestine War, Selinger helped set up Kibbutz Kabri in Galilee . In 1951 he met Ruth Shapirovsky from Haifa, whom he married in 1954. The year before he had started working as a sculptor, which had to do with the fact that his memory was restored.

Paris

In 1955 Selinger received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize . The following year the couple decided to go to Paris . From 1955 to 1958 Selinger studied sculpture with Marcel Gimond at the Paris École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts . Selinger learned classic clay design from Gimond. But Selinger also continued the work he had begun on stone in Israel. Too poor to buy stone blocks, Selinger looked for his material in Paris. His preferred stone was granite . In the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi he also got to know the red sandstone from the Vosges . Selinger spent three years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In his own words, he learned most in the Paris museums and in the studios of the sculptors Ossip Zadkine , Jean Arp , Alberto Giacometti and Joseph Constantinovsky (known as Joseph Constant).

In 1960 seven pictures by Shlomo Selinger were exhibited in the Jewish Museum in New York . Official recognition came in 1973 when he won first prize in the competition for a memorial in the former Drancy assembly camp . In 1993, Selinger was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French President François Mitterrand , and has been an officer of the Legion of Honor since 2006. Selinger has Israeli and French citizenship.

gallery

Web links

Commons : Shlomo Selinger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c See the list of the Groß-Rosen subcamps .
  2. ↑ a b See list of the subcamps of the Flossenbürg concentration camp .
personal data
SURNAME Selinger, Shlomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Selinger, Shelomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaworzno , Poland