Img. ID: 87861
Memorial name
The Last Train
Who is Commemorated?
Venitian Jews killed in the Holocaust
Description
This memorial, set into a wall within the New Jewish Ghetto of Venice, focuses on a bronze bas-relief depicting streams of Jewish victims flowing from three boxcars to nazi soldiers in the foreground. the details and faces of those depicted on relief are intentionally left blurred. it is a depiction of a painting the artist of the relief, Arbit Blatas, created in 1980, also called The Last Train.
The relief is set on an iron grate, behind which are large wooden boards that are lined horizontally, and are carved with the 246 names of Jews who were deported from the Venitian Ghetto during the Holocaust.
Inscription
[List of Names]
Donated by
The artist of the piece, Arbit Blatas