The Press and Journal - Aberdeen, Scotland
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29 JANUARY 2008
ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS HOLOCAUST ATROCITIES
An artist who is in the north-east to raise awareness of the Holocaust spoke to university students in Aberdeen last night. Akiva Kenny Segan has been showing young people examples of his own and other artwork highlighting atrocities.
The artwork addresses anti-Jewish propaganda from the early 20th century in the form of Nazi cartoons.
The 57 year old painter, who was Aberdeen Art Gallery's international artist in residence in 1987, presented last night's slide show and discussion at Aberdeen University's McRobert Building.
Last week he spoke to pupils at the city's Northfield Academy, and this week he will be at schools in Forfar, Montrose and Brechin. Seattle-based Segan has produced numerous works portraying the victims of Nazism, most notably his Under the Wings of G-d series. His lecture tours are designed "to focus on human rights and the dehumanization process which seems to happen in conflict."
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Note, written 18 January 2021, by A.K. Segan, while typing the 2008 published article for the BIB section of my website: In the Press and Journal article's third sentence (above) "The artwork includes anti-Jewish propaganda in the form of Nazi cartoons," I think the Press & Journal writer was likely referring to examples of Third Reich - Nazi hate propaganda images which I showed, in early frames in my power-point, of background imagery to some of the history of the Holocaust. Third Reich - Nazi propaganda of the 1930's included various art images and banners, with cartoons among them, to foment hatred against Jewish people, against Romani and Sinti peoples, and against the disabled*.
[*The Third Reich genocide of the mentally and physically disabled of Germany and Austria, which was called Aktion T-4, paved the way for the mass murder and genocide of the Holocaust that followed, with the murder of six million Jewish Europeans, over one million Catholic Poles, over one million Russian POW's and others, including Jehovah's Witnesses, labor activists, Allied POW's, homosexuals and the few Europeans who tried to save Jewish people and or those who tried to help those who tried to aid Jewish people.]