{"id":805,"date":"2024-01-23T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T11:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naumsintnicolaas.art\/?page_id=805"},"modified":"2024-01-23T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T13:31:28","slug":"the-golem-of-the-crematorium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/the-golem-of-the-crematorium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golem of the Crematorium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This series of drawings in a mixed ink technique (40×50 cm) is dedicated to the bravery and memory of the Sonderkommando Revolt in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. On the now infamous date of the 7th of October, the the Sonderkommando unsuccessfully fought the SS officers and tragically perished. In this re-imagined fantastical series, the Sonderkommando not only conspire to revolt against their captors and tormentors, but create the mythical, seemingly indestructible golem to aid them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Ashes, Clay and Fire, the Golem is born (The golem is created by the conspirators)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rise Golem! (Start of the riot)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A desperate fight (The sonderkommando fight the SS guards)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Burn those who would burn regardless (The flame troopers arrive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the ashes of the furnace (While the humans burn , the clay and ash golem survives and battles the remaining flame troopers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dead standoff (Only the officer and golem remain, with the officer reaching behind his head to reveal a terrible secret)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Truth revealed (The death figure, previously the officer, reveals itself and erases the alef on the golem’s head, changing the Hebrew word for truth to death)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The march of death (The death figure leads all the fallen humans in a macabre march, while the Hebrew letters in the middle spell death)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This series of drawings in a mixed ink technique (40×50 cm) is dedicated to the bravery and memory of the Sonderkommando Revolt in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. On the now infamous date of the 7th of October, the the Sonderkommando unsuccessfully fought the SS officers and tragically perished. In this re-imagined fantastical series, the Sonderkommando […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naumsintnicolaas.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}