Shlomo selinger biography for kids

Shelomo Selinger (born 1928) is an Israeli sculptor who was born in Jaworzno in Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1945.

Shlomo selinger biography for kids

From 1955 to 1958, he studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

His sculptures in public places include:

• The Unknown Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
• The Gates of Hell in Drancy, France
• Monument to the Liberation from the Nazi Occupation at La Courneuve, France
• The Poet, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, New Jersey
• Elijah, Haifa, Israel
• Requiem for the Jews, (Bostalsee, Germany)

Shelomo survived 9 extermination camps in Germany, was forced to watch his father's murder (Nazi's forced a tube of water down his father's throat and drowned him), and was ripped out of his mother's arms.

Upon American liberation of the camps, a Russian soldier found him twitching on top of a pile of dead bodies about to be burned. He was rescued and put into an Americ