I made a painting that has holes in it. Why is there holes? Because God says to us, I can not do all. I can create you, but I cannot do it all. You have to help Me fix the holes and put everything together. This is the learning from the holocaust. That each of us is here to fix the holes. My little brother, they put him in the crematorium. What did my mother, undressing in front of strangers, holding this little boy by the hand, what did she say to him? What? No one knows. There is a hole.
~ Hungarian artist and holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana (1929 – 2017) was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager. The above quote is an excerpt from a talk she gave at the University of Portland.
Wow – that is powerful!