 Josh Shane, an Eagle Scout majoring in automotive systems engineering at Arizona State University, and Gabrielle Vanderlaan, a senior at de Toledo High School, have been awarded the Legacy of Hope Award for their contributions to the David Labkovski Project.
At the age of 14, Wollschlaeger discovered his father’s role as a Nazi in World War 11. From that time, Wollshlaeger began his journey to learn more about the Jewish people and reach beyond the hatred around him.  The life of Jewish artist David Labkovski was filled with tragedy. Born in Lithuania in 1906, he survived three years of imprisonment in a brutal Siberian gulag during World War II. He then returned to a devastated Lithuania, where over 95% of the Jewish population perished in the Holocaust. Throughout Labkovski’s life (He died in Israel at the age of 85.), he painted the story of his struggles and those of his community—the vanished, as well as the people and places that survived. “If it was a choice between a cup of coffee and paints, it was always paints and paintbrushes,” his great-niece Leora Raikin says of David and his wife, Rivka. “Their entire life’s focus was securing paint supplies in whatever form, to be able to document what had happened.”
 The LAUSD is piloting a program here in the Valley - The David Labkovski Project - aimed at teaching students about the Holocaust.
The life of a Jewish artist David Labkovski was filled with tragedy. Born in Lithuania in 1906, he survived three years of imprisonment in a brutal Siberian gulag during World War II. He then returned to a devastated Lithuania, where over 95% of the Jewish population perished in the Holocaust. Throughout Labkovski's life (He died in Israel at the age of 85), he painted the story of his struggles and those of his community - the vanished, as well as the people and places that survived.  The exhibition, called “From Prisoner in Siberia to Artist in Safed, Israel. The story of Jewish destruction, survival and renewal as seen through the images of artist, David Labkovski (1906-1991)” has travelled the world. In South Africa, it went to Durban and will be exhibiting in Johannesburg on September 3. Now living in Los Angeles, Raikin is in South Africa to talk about Labkovski’s art, as well as the David Labkovski Project, an educational programme she helped develop, that teaches students about Eastern European life before, during and after the Holocaust, through his art. To read the full article, please click here.  The project was held for the first time in South Africa in an effort to educate all guests about totalitarianism in the 20th century though David Labkovski’s amazing artwork.
The atmosphere at the historic Durban Holocaust Centre was emotionally charged as guests and art lovers alike listened intently to speakers at an exhibition held in honour of Holocaust survivor and painter, David Labkovski, last Wednesday. To read the entire article, please click here.  Former South African Leora Raikin has taken on the daunting task of cataloguing, preserving and exhibiting the art of her great-uncle, David Labkovski. Most compelling, though, is that she is using the works to teach students to document history.
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JOHANNESBURG – A unique collection by a Jewish artist who survived the gulags during the Holocaust years is headed to South Africa... Read the Rest Here
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