New Art Exhibit at the Center for Jewish History Launches Fundraiser for Czech Holocaust Survivors

An Artist's urgent need to document his surroundings is clearly evident in the up-coming exhibit of Alfred Kantor's 127 water colors and sketches, entitled, "Alfred Kantor: An Artist's Diary of the Holocaust". The show, one of the few visual records of daily life in the Nazi concentration camps, will be on view from March 8 until June 13, 2004, at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York City, in the Constantiner Gallery on the ground floor. The exhibit was organized by the Prague Jewish Community and is sponsored by the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, in collaboration with the Consul General of the Czech Republic, the Czech Center New York, and JDC.

With JDC support, the newly revitalized Prague Jewish Community organized the Kantor exhibit in New York, in cooperation with YIVO, "in an effort to raise awareness and funds for 'Project Hagibor", says Tomas Jelinek, the Community's Chairman. Jelinek goes on to say that the project's goal is to provide a senior residence in Prague for aging Holocaust survivors living in the Czech Republic. In fact, many elderly survivors in the Czech Republic live alone with no financial means for additional care or appropriate services. The art exhibit will be the launch for the community's fundraising initiative for the senior residence. For more information on 'Project Hagibor' visit the Prague Jewish community website at www.kehilaprag.cz.

For more information on this exhibit, please visit the Center for Jewish History website at www.cjh.org.