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Naftali Bezem (born 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor who was born in Essen, Germany. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's Nazi concentration campss. Its remains are located in Poland approximately 50 kilometers west of Krak?w and 286 kilometers south of Warsaw....
. Naftali immigrated to Israel in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah
Youth Aliyah

The Youth Aliyah is a Jewish organization that rescued 22,000 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Third Reich, arranging for their resettlement in Palestine in kibbutzim and youth villages that became both home and school....
 group.

From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national Art school. It is named after the Bible figure Bezalel, son of Uri , who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle ....
 in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon
Mordecai Ardon

Mordecai Ardon , considered one of Israel's greatest painters. Ardon was born in Tuchow, Galicia , and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. One of his most famous creations are the Ardon Windows, a set of large stained glass windows displayed prominently in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem, incorporating visual el...
 (1896 - 1992).






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Naftali Bezem (born 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor who was born in Essen, Germany. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's Nazi concentration campss. Its remains are located in Poland approximately 50 kilometers west of Krak?w and 286 kilometers south of Warsaw....
. Naftali immigrated to Israel in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah
Youth Aliyah

The Youth Aliyah is a Jewish organization that rescued 22,000 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Third Reich, arranging for their resettlement in Palestine in kibbutzim and youth villages that became both home and school....
 group.

From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national Art school. It is named after the Bible figure Bezalel, son of Uri , who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle ....
 in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon
Mordecai Ardon

Mordecai Ardon , considered one of Israel's greatest painters. Ardon was born in Tuchow, Galicia , and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. One of his most famous creations are the Ardon Windows, a set of large stained glass windows displayed prominently in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem, incorporating visual el...
 (1896 - 1992). He then spent three years studying in Paris.

His most famous public works include a wall relief at Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem

File:Yad Vashem BW 3.JPGYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
 in Jerusalem and the ceiling mural in the main reception room at the President's House, Jerusalem.