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Ghetto Fighters’ Museum finds lost Korczak sculpture

Artist Shmuel Nissenbaum’s statue on loan at Ghetto Fighters’ Museum lost, found almost a year later after Ynet publishes report

A day after the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum reportedly lost artist Shmuel Nissenbaum’s statue entitled, “Korczak and his Children,” the museum’s management miraculously found it.

 

Simcha Stein, director of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum said that “the museum’s management apologizes to Shmuel Nissenbaum, who was certain that his creation disappeared and is happy to relay that the conclusion reached regarding the sculpture’s disappearance was premature.

 

“As a show of respect to the artist and his creation, the sculpture will be temporarily displayed in a conspicuous location at the Korczak exhibit in the museum’s “Children’s Memorial.”

 

The announcements made by the museum’s director and spokesperson alike are strange in light of the fact that Nissebaum has been in search of his sculpture for almost a year. Thus, stating that the artist was “certain that his creation disappeared” is peculiar, to say the least.

  

Stein explained that the “sculpture was on exhibit for many years in the old Korczak exhibition. When the display moved to the “Children’s Memorial” the stature was placed under the archive’s supervision where 3,500 works of art are located. For reasons which are still unclear, the statue was not listed in the inventory list and was not found when physically looked for the first time. This is why the museum was under the impression that the creation was lost.”

 

Attorney Gaby Lasky, who represented Nissenbaum in his appeal to the museum, told Ynet that “it is unfortunate that only media involvement yielded a serious search of the statue that should have been on permanent display to begin with and not in some concealed, unknown warehouse.”

 

Lusky emphasized that Nissenbaum is not interested in leaving his statue at a museum that lost it and that he intends on transferring it as planned to “Beit LeHiyot” in Holon, an establishment for Holocaust survivors in the city.

 


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