Alice Lok Cahana

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.

Her work celebrates Judaism as well as those who perished 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."