“What happened to the children who lay in the wrong cradle? What happened there?” is the question the Austrian artist Manfred Bockelmann asks himself. He was born in 1943 and has now embarked on a mission: He wants to shed light on the countless children and teenagers who were murdered by the Nazis and disappeared in the archives as a statistical number. He wants to give back a face, a personality, to the numbers – that is his aim. Drawn in charcoal using horizontal lines on coarse jute canvas, he draws one portrait after the other. These children look at us questioningly, filled with fear: “Why me? What did I do wrong?”
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