Murals showing The Simpsons as Holocaust victims on train station wall
The artwork depicts the famous cartoon family before and after their deportation from the central station in Milan from which hundreds of Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Shocking new murals portraying celebrated cartoon family The Simpsons deported to Nazi concentration camps appeared on the walls of the Holocaust Memorial at Milan’s central station (Track 21) as the world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The murals, made by artist aleXsandro Palombo, show the Simpson family before and after their deportation on the central station in Milan from which hundreds of Jews were sent to the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Flossenbürg, Ravensbrück, Fossoli and Bolzano during World War II.
The Simpsons family is wearing the notorious yellow star of Davids used to mark Jews during the Holocaust, as well as the striped pyjamas synonymous with concentrations camps.
“These works are a visual stumble that allows us to see what we no longer see. The most terrible things can become reality and Art has the duty to remember them because it is a powerful antidote against oblivion. The horror of the Jewish genocide must be transmitted without filters to the new generations to protect humanity from other horrors such as the Shoah” aleXsandro Palombo said.
aleXsandro Palombo is an Italian contemporary Pop artist and activist, famous for his colourful and reflective works that focus on topics such as ethics and human rights.
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