Alice Lok Cahana (F / Hungary, 1929-2017), Holocaust survivor
Alice Lok Cahana (F / Hungary, 1929-2017), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Auschwitz> <Guben> <Bergen-Belsen> <Liberation of Bergen-Belsen> -- <Sweden> <United States>
- MEMOIRS : The Last Days (doc, 1998)
Biography
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Koczy was born February 7, 1929, in Sárvár, Hungary. In 1944 she and her entire family were transported to Auschwitz. While interning at Guben concentration camp, Lok Cahana made her first work of art in response to the Nazis mandating the children to decorate the barracks for Christmas.
- "There were no paper or pencils to make decorations; we practically had nothing except one broom to sweep the floor with. We were about 24 children in our barrack. I decided we should choreograph ourselves into a living candelabra and hold the pieces of the broom as a part of this sculpture. We won a prize – each of us a little can of snails."
Lok Cahana was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. After the war, she lived in Sweden from 1952 to 1957 before immigrating to the United States. In 1959, she settled in Houston, Texas.
She became a famous artist.
Doc : The Last Days (doc, 1998)
The Last Days is a documentary, directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor and Kenneth Lipper in 1998. Steven Spielberg was one of the executive producers, in his role as founder of the Shoah Foundation. The film tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Shoah. Shoah survivors Bill Basch, Irene Zisblatt, Renee Firestone, Alice Lok Cahana, Tom Lantos, Dario Gabbai and Randolph Braham are featured in the film.
The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.