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Alice Lok Cahana
Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor and painter
Alice Lok Cahana (February 7, 1929 – November 28, 2017) was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.[1] Lok Cahana was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps:[2] her most well-known works are her writings and abstract paintings about the Holocaust.
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Her work celebrates Judaism and those murdered in the Holocaust by transforming the horror of their deaths into a testament to their lives. As she told Barbara Rose in the From Ashes to the Rainbow catalog interview, "I started to paint only about the Holocaust as a tribute and memorial to those who did not return, and I am still not finished."[3]
Early life
Alice Lok Cahana was born in Sárvár, Hungary in 1929.
She first learned to draw in a Jewish high school (Jewish students were forbidden to attend public schools at the time). In 1944 she and her entire family were transported to Auschwitz as part of