Nandor Glid
Nandor Glid(12 December 1924 - 31 March 1997) was a Yugoslav sculptor, best known for designing the memorial sculpture at theDachau concentration camp.
Biography[edit]
Glid was aHolocaust survivorwho had been a forced laborer and partisan during the war and whose father and most of his family were murdered inAuschwitz.[1][2]
From 1985 to 1989 he was Rector of theUniversity of Arts in Belgrade.[3]
After the war, he created a number of monuments memorializing Holocaust victims, including the memorial at theMauthausen concentration campand the Dachau concentration camp, for which he won the international competition for the memorial sculpture in 1967.[1][2][4][5]
In 1990, the city ofBelgradeand the local Jewish community dedicated a memorial sculpture,Menora u plamenu(English: "Menorah in Flames" ) in theDorćolquarter, which had been the Jewish quarter of Belgrade. The sculpture commemorates over 10,000 Serbian Jews, the vast majority from Belgrade, who were murdered by SS and Wehrmacht army units or deported to concentration camps duringthe Holocaust in Serbia.[2]
In 1997, Glid began asculpture for the Holocaust memorial to the Jews of Salonika,which was a variation on the Menorah in Flames, but he died before it was finished. His sons completed it after his death and it was subsequently unveiled inThessaloniki,Greece.[2]
References[edit]
- ^abJames Edward Young (1993).The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning.Yale University Press. pp. 65–66.ISBN978-0-300-05991-5.Retrieved6 March2016.
- ^abcd"Menorah in Flames Holocaust Memorial".Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance.Berlin, Germany: Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas.Retrieved2019-08-11.
- ^"History of the University".University of Arts in Belgrade. Archived fromthe originalon October 6, 2011.RetrievedMay 26,2010.
- ^Kamins, Toni L. (1968-02-01)."To Unveil Monument to Dachau Victims on Anniversary of Camp's Liberation".Jewish Telegraphic Agency.Retrieved2019-08-12.
- ^Kamins, Toni L. (1968-02-08)."Yugoslav Jews Honor Memory of Subotica Resistance Group".Jewish Telegraphic Agency.Retrieved2019-08-12.
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