Disgusting: Auschwitz model made from gold from Jews' teeth
I was going to ignore this story because I was so disgusted by it, and I am not going to give you the picture of it (which you can find - where else - in Haaretz) for the same reason. But I thought David Hazony's response merited brief mention and a link.I am speaking, of course, about a monstrosity that has appeared in Copenhagen. A model of the entrance to Auschwitz, complete with a little train car, made out of gold — gold taken from the teeth of Holocaust victims. See for yourself. Maybe someone will say it is a hoax and relieve us of the notion.Read it all.
I do not know what the artist thinks about Nazism, about Judaism, about anti-Semitism, about violence, or about art. I do not care. According to Haaretz’s captions, he put a Rolex watch in the tower, to hint at Switzerland’s complicity. I just don’t care. To me this is worse than political art, worse than feces-laden art, worse than almost anything called art. If art is meant to be a human thing, what can we say to an artist who does not seem to realize that we still count among the living the victims who passed through those gates? That every gram of gold that he touched may yet belong to someone? That it was extracted not with novocaine in a benevolent dentist’s office, but there, and then, and in that way?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:36 AM
2 Comments:
That is downright abhorrent. I find it hard to believe that someone thought that "art" was in good taste. I want to ask where he got all the gold teeth from, but then again, it doesn't matter - that is SICK. Anyone who would go through and try to acquire those gold teeth is SICK, and any gallery that would host that monstrosity is SICK. What a vile and disgusting abomination.
Agreed. But they are just "fill in the blank Jews." It says a lot more about Europe than it does about Israel.
To say its revolting and grotesque would be the understatement of the decade.
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