The Last train - Venezia, Italy - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The Last Train is a bronze bas-relief sculpture by Arbit Blatas dedicated to the Venetian Jews who were deported between 1943 and 1944. 246 names are inscribed on a wooden wall behind the bas-relief depicting a train.

In 1993 the sculpture was consecrated by the President of Italy on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Deportation.

It stands permanently near the Monument of the Holocaust, a work of the same artist, in the historic ghetto of Venice.

Arbit Blatas (1908–1999), born Nicolai Arbitblatas, was an artist and sculptor of Lithuanian Jewish origin. In the late 1970s, the Holocaust, a theme until then inactive for the artist – burst forth in Blatas' work and remains a major theme for the rest of his life. His personal connection to the Holocaust was profound: his parents were deported from Lithuania in 1941 and his mother died in the Stutthof concentration camp while his father survived Dachau.

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Your impression of the sculpture?: Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 09/19/1993 Website for sculpture?: [Web Link] Where is this sculpture?: Campo of the Ghetto Novo Venezia, Italy 30121 Sculptors Name: Arbit Blatas

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