Fall 2007 Exhibit: The Rescuers
Artist’s Statement: Arnold Gateoff
The term “Righteous Gentile” makes reference to those people who jeopardized their lives and the lives of their families in an attempt to shield Jewish people from persecution, violence and murder at the hands of the Nazis from 1933 to 1945.
The painting, “Righteous Gentiles” contains images the represent innocent children, clergy, angels, shepherds and migration.
The Last Train
The Kindertransport refers to the trains that carred Jewish children to the coast of the Netherlands where ferries awaited to take them to a safer world in England. The first train left Berlin in December of 1938.
The painting “The Last Train” salutes those people who waved many children from persecution, abuse and murder at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators throughout Europe.