Art has an incredible strength, it has the power to communicate, to entertain, to make people reflect, to excite….
Today Art helps us remember one of the most serious crimes against humanity in recent history!
On the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Council of Europe is marking the International Day of Commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust.
TODAY WE WANT TO REMEMBER!
TODAY WE WANT TO HONOR THE VICTIMS!
TODAY WE WANT TO SORRY BECAUSE THE YEARS COOL THE MEMORY!

Today we simply want to open our hearts and let in the pain, the tears, the sufferings, the hunger, the cruelties experienced by thousands of people, victims of the holocaust.
Today we pray that humanity never forgets what happened, because only clear memory can allow it never to happen again!

We want to thank this incredible Artist who has been able to grasp so deeply the horror experienced by these victims, people who have become numbers, who have become nobody. These works are invaluable, they manage to penetrate the heart and make us feel the pain, confusion, terror these angels felt when their world collapsed under their feet. The incredible ability to convey all this through the canvas, make Susan an artist with a unique empathy of her kind, able to give life to her works and to create a direct connection with the viewer.
Thank you, Susan Ferrari-Luvini!

Susan Ferrari-Luvini says:

“Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen , Treblinka Buchenwald & many many more were the “words” murmured with both profound emotion & a dose of rage by my beloved late grandfather Abraham. I vividly recall so many moments spent with him in the warmth & comfort of our family homes in Johannesburg South Africa. He unceasingly reminded us of how blessed we all were living in this abundance of everything & never allowed it to escape his deep appreciation of the freedom & opportunity he enjoyed as a Lithuanian immigrant in his new country of adoption
Sitting on his lap in his favorite rocking chair & listening to his stories told in broken English ( Yiddish was his mother tongue) far too many of my questions remained unanswered. He just couldn’t get the words out & now I know why.
No options remained other than for me to explore these unknown chambers of horror which were reflected in my grandfather’s distant, un fathomable & saddest of gazes.
Stories only half-told which hunf suspended leaving me immensely disturbed & boundlessly curious.
How on this Earth could these victimized “prisoners” be convicted of an uncommitted crime without a judicial process?

I guessed I may only find some harsh truths in reading, researching in my endeavors to discover even just a single answer to this senseless Final Solution perpetrated in silence & denial . The images & testimonies I have encountered over all these years have haunted my mind, my thoughts & let it be said , my wildest imagination.
I leave you with these upsetting portrait-paintings executed with intentional delicate brushstrokes ( no more inflicted pain) to honor & pay my highest tribute to each & every soul whose future was denied in the hands of the most brutal & warped minds.
Let us remember & learn for time immemorial”