Alice Lok Cahana is an Hungarian Holocaust survivor. She was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben

Guben

Guben is a town on the Lusatian Neisse river in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. Located in the Spree-Neiße district, Guben has a population of 20,049...

 and Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen may refer to:* Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen , a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp* Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , on the site of the prisoner-of-war camp...

 camps. She is most well known for her writings and abstract paintings about the Holocaust.

Art career

Cahana is an abstract painter. In 2006, her piece "No Names" was added to the Vatican Museum's Collection of Modern Religious Art

Collection of Modern Religious Art, Vatican Museums

The Collection of Modern Religious Art of the Vatican Museums is a collection of paintings, graphic art and sculptures...

 and since then is on permanent display at the museum in Rome, Italy.

In media

Cahana was one of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors whose story was featured in the Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

 1999 Academy Award winning documentary

Documentary

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 movie, The Last Days

The Last Days

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 the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust...

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