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AWAKENING -A  Symphonic Vision

“To the Man Who Gave Me Back My Faith”

On the cover of "Awakening" is a painting by renowned Israel artist and Holocaust survivor, Yehuda Bacon.  Bacon dedicated this well known painting to Premysl Pitter, the man who showed  kindness to him, and to many other children returning home to Czechoslovakia after the Holocaust.  The painting may be viewed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Israeli artist Yehuda Bacon was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929,to a Chassidic family. In 1941, he was sent to Theresienstadt ( Terezin) at the age of thirteen, where he began to draw. Whilst in Theresienstadt, he studied under the direction of artists Otto Unger, Bedrich Fritta and Leo Hass. In 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz. He emigrated to Eretz Israel with the Youth Aliya in 1946, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and then continued his studies in Italy, London, New York and Paris. In 1961 he testified at the Eichmann trial. Bacon lectured in the art department of Haifa University and at Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem.

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