Auschwitz: When Angels Lost Their Wings
Auschwitz was a collection of over forty concentration and extermination camps, created by Nazi Germany in Poland, in order to attempt to carry out their “Final Solution”: extermination of the Jewish people. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million were killed, including 960,000 Jews. Of the nearly million Jews to perish at Auschwitz, more than 865,000 were gassed to death immediately upon their arrival. Others died of starvation, execution, beatings, disease, and medical experimentation. Auschwitz survivors include psychiatrist Victor Frankl and writer Elie Wiesel.
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This piece is especially meaningful to me because the time, place and space to angelise a person, is before their death not after. I relate to the holocaust reference in the title because I have a first-hand understanding of the style of interrogation techniques and tactics applied by the Nazis. Where the supremacy of the premise of original sin within Catholic and Christian religious doctrine, is diametrally opposed to Judaic principles the assumption that the Jewish friend and relative is born innocent, prevails. This artwork reminds me that life can corrupt us, not only by the choices we are presented with but also by the options we take to ensure our survival. If a parent is told that they will die at the hands of the interrogator if they do not inform on their own, regardless of the decision made, the wings of all of the angels will dissipate.