page_title: Yehuda Bacon
section_title: Art career
hierarchical_section_title: Yehuda Bacon / Art career
caption_attribution_description: English: Inside Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem with the reproduction of the painting by holocaust survival Yehuda Bacon. Čeština: Reprodukce kresby "Člověku, který mi vrátil víru" v Muzeu Jad Vašem v Jeruzalémě od izraelského malíře českého původu Jehudy Bacona.
context_page_description: Yehuda Bacon is an Israeli artist who survived the Holocaust.
context_section_description: After liberation, Bacon decided to become an artist  to process his experiences and try to describe what he lived through. As a survivor he feels a responsibility to tell his story and to make future generations aware of their responsibility in the present and future. He was among the first survivors of the Shoah to set foot again on German soil. 
  Bacon's drawings show details and sequences of what he saw in the concentration camps and scenes he drew as a teenager shortly after the liberation. His drawings served as  evidence in trials against Nazi criminals (including the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials) and were used in the litigation against Holocaust denier David Irving, who challenges the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.
  His art is a kind of asynergistic interaction: on the one hand, Bacon processes the experiences of his childhood and youth in the concentration camps, on the other he is searching for a way of understanding through his art. Bacon was early part of interfaith dialogues and Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in the 1950s. His art is shown in several museums and collections around the world, among the Israel Museum and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the United States Congress in Washington D.C., in the homes of Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann as well as in London.
caption: Reproduction of Bacon painting, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
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