The Unknown Child Holocaust Remembrance sculpture by Rick Wienecke
signed and numbered by the artist 2/10
An abandoned child leans against the inside of a crematorium door, a replica of the oven doors at Auschwitz. In his mind, he reaches an arm through the closed door, desperately grasping for a place where he will be safe. Created by Canadian-born artist, Rick Wienecke,
in the November/December 2010 issue of “Jewish Scene Magazine, ” an article ran entitled “Unknown Child Penny Project Raises Holocaust Awareness.” The story reported what students at Horn Lake Middle School in Mississippi, were doing to remember the Holocaust, and how teachers Susan Powell and Melissa Swartz challenged them to collect 1.5 million Pennies, one for each murdered child.
Generation SC, a homeschool group from the Collierville/Germantown area, heard about the Unknown Child project and asked to participate. Their eager enthusiasm helped garner the remainder of the 1.5 million Pennies (in total over 8,000 pounds).
Soon after all the Pennies were collected, the project founders met Rick Wienecke, a sculptor from Israel who was intrigued by the project. Wienecke was commissioned to make a life-size sculpture of a faceless child in the ovens of Auschwitz – the “Unknown Child.” He counseled against melting the pennies for the sculpture, saying the power of the project was in the unimaginable number of 1.5 million Pennies – each representing a life!
Exhibit: Unknown Child Holocaust memorial in Mississippi
size; 25 in. 63.5 cm
excellent condition
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