David Olere: Burying The Children

David Olere Paintings Essay David Olere is known as a tremendous artist who reveals to us the horrible reality of the Holocaust, as well as the events that took places in the crematoriums. Olere was a Polish-born French painter and sculptor in the year of 1902 and died 83 years later in the year of 1985. He was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts until he was sixteen and during this time his art was exhibited in museums and art houses in many areas. David did not just sketch for pleasure. He did it in testimony to all the people who never came back. Olere was an Auschwitz survivor whose drawings, paintings, and sculptures have helped convey what the Jews and other victims went through during the death camps. Even after Olere died his wife …show more content…
He first job at Auschwitz was a grave digger and I think the emotion that he expresses on his face is that there is nothing left to feel because this is something that soon will become a routine. There's a guard in the background and it seems that he is looking away from Olere because he can’t look upon the horrific scene or he just doesn't care. I think the message that he trying to tell the world is that no one is safe including the one’s that are the most innocent. The colors in this picture are black and white and I think that Olere used black and white coloring when he was doing working for the Nazi’s. The black and white show that his emotion wasn’t their it was the Nazi’s using him as a puppet. I think that Olere created this picture when he first got to camps and was assigned his job, it was a hard in the beginning but he adjusted to it because he knew it would be until a long while until it stopped. My reaction when I saw this picture was the amount trauma I would be facing each day that I had to go and bury hundreds of innocent kids but I think that over time I would not have an emotion or feeling, nothing would be