"For seven decades, "never forget" has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement.I first started working on this project several years ago, using contemporary reference photographs to colorize and restore photographs from the Holocaust and I did publish them on my Facebook and on my blog, but now I'm realizing that that wasn't nearly enough and so I worked on them a bit more and I'm publishing them again here.
But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened - and this lack of knowledge is more pronounced among millennials, whom the survey defined as people ages 18 to 34.
Thirty-one percent of Americans, and 41 percent of millennials, believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust; the actual number is around six million. Forty-one percent of Americans, and 66 percent of millennials, cannot say what Auschwitz was. And 52 percent of Americans wrongly think Hitler came to power through force."
It seems to me that colorized images will help people to better empathize with the victims of the Holocaust and I hope that any artist that is interested in working with me to colorize more images or even to improve the ones that I've colorized so far would please contact me. I am also interested in being contacted by anyone who could help me with this project in general. This project is not for profit but feel free to follow me on my Facebook, Instagram, Patreon or Youtube or check out my webpage.
Also, if you are going to be in Houston on May 19th please come and check out an art show of my large drawings at Gray Contemporary.
#1 Colorized Photograph Of Anne Frank
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