Auschwitz Survivor's Death Inspires Holocaust Exhibition for Muizz Gallery

Tustin, CA, February 11, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The sudden loss of Auschwitz Survivor Eli Taub haunted artist, Keariene Muizz, as she worked in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery while laying the foundation of another collection in 2006. Eli Taub's absence is exemplary of the current state of aging Holocaust Survivors and led the artist to question the presence of their place in history.

"I could not help but think of Mr. Taub as I roamed the tombstones of the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in the winter of 2006, following his death." Ms. Muizz the artist behind Muizz Gallery stated, "I was preparing my Sacred Stones Collection at the time, marking the end of my process with grief."

The artist was not always an artist, but began painting because someone stole her only baby photos during high school. Having no other way to show who she was throughout her life Ms. Muizz began documenting her emotional history for them. Speaking about this theft to her close friend Talia Stern (nee Taub). Talia stated, "I know what you mean. My father survived the Auschwitz death camp. We lost everything in the Holocaust. My family has no pictures from before 1946. I know how much it hurts to not be able to see the past."

The artist became curious about Mr. Stern's tattoo number, the ugly insignia seared on many placed in death camps during the Holocaust.

I asked Talia if she knew what his tattoo number was. She said, "He had one, but I don't remember what it was."

"I became a little obsessed with his tattoo number when I returned from Paris. We called Israel and asked his wife what his tattoo number was and she too could not recall it; though she slept beside him faithfully for over forty years. It was like the horror of what the tattoo represented had been blocked from their minds, ignored, and thus erased from the caverns of time and history." Muizz recalls.

Secondary Sources: Stone Narratives of the Holocaust, is the latest collection to be presented by Muizz Gallery. One of the purposes behind the collection is to depict the Holocaust from a multicultural perspective. A vantage point that will remind those living now to repeat the stories they have heard in order that the darkest time in human history will not be erased from the chronicles of time.

"I knew that all around the world Survivors were dying," Keariene Muizz sighs, "taking with them the extraordinary narratives of history. And if left unrepeated the Holocaust itself would bear the threat of being erased from the archives of the future. It made me realize what a critical moment in time I am living in, one where primary sources -those whom lived through this atrocious moment, would not be able to speak. Therefore, it is our duty to repeat these stories and remind all humanity that prejudice is always based on what makes us different, but tolerance is the legacy that should be shared most among us all."

The highly anticipated collection is being prepared for exhibition in 2010.

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