Born in Auschwitz, Israeli Artist, 102, Harnesses the Dark and the Light

Born in Auschwitz, Israeli Artist, 102, Harnesses the Dark and the Light

Born in Auschwitz, Israeli Artist, 102, Harnesses the Dark and the Lightbr Linda Zisquit, an American-born poet and the director of ArtSpace, which represents contemporary Israeli artists, was visiting to choose some piecesbr with the help of Orna Millo, another Israeli artist, who curated Ms. Berlinski’s last solo exhibition, in 2002, at Jerusalem Artists House.br The artist, Tova Berlinski, was born in 1915 in the Polish town of Oswiecim, better known by its German name — Auschwitz.br Ms. Berlinski’s 11th-floor apartment, a short walk from the gallery, is ordinarily a quiet place, its walls lined with portraits of her vanished familybr and her late husband, Eliyahu Berlinski, known as Elec.br But this month, Ms. Berlinski, now a widow, is emerging once again into the limelight, with a tribute exhibitionbr and sale of her works at ArtSpace, a small gallery in the leafy neighborhood of German Colony in Jerusalem, where she has lived for more than 50 years.br Born Gusta Wolf to a Hasidic family, Ms. Berlinski has fond memories of growing up in Oswiecim, where about half the 12,000 residents were Jewish.


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