Swap effect with the class name. Port St. Lucie News Ft. By Brian Bixler of the News staff Ghostly faces, some distinctly featured, others blurred beyond recognition, emerge from an inky background.
Skeletal humans peer from bunk beds in a dark barracks.
Elsewhere, a limp body is dragged away a victim who succumbed before liberators could save him. Those are some of the horrific images in Katie Trowbridge s oil painting, Remember, that was named best of show in the Marvin S. Cone Annual High School Juried Art Show, currently on exhibit at the Court House Cultural Center in Stuart. Trowbridge, a senior at Martin County High School, said she always has been moved by the Holocaust the extermination of 6 million Jews by Nazis during World War II and her painting is meant as a memorial to the youngest of those lost souls. Remember is a tableau of images woven within the points of a large Star of David. Faces of children float throughout the work, as does the visage of the notorious Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor at Auschwitz.