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to see the truth. No one was waiting for me. This clerk, his name will be omitted, lied to me. They left me on the platform. After a while I realized that it was worse than a concentration camp, because I was not alone there, we went to die together, whereas on the platform at the port of Haifa I went to die alone.
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After I received the certificate, they left me alone on the platform. No one came to me. I found a pile of oranges and sat on it. I waited. Yes, I waited for someone to come and take me to the kibbutz, as that official had promised me. I waited for several hours and suddenly I was horrified. I began
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a series of staged recollections where photographic images and reproductions of Maryan’s paintings, drawings, and lithographs alternate with a disturbing performance. Maryan reenacts
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In Paris
Pinchas Burstein took a new name, Maryan Bergman, "which he "borrowed" from his schoolmate in Bezalel, the painter Marian (Meir Marinel), who committed suicide a few years later." There, he had works included in several major exhibitions and was commissioned to design a tapestry for the
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My name is Maryan S. Maryan. I was born in Nowy Sącz 1.1.1927 … I was sent to summer camps with many other kids from all over Poland. It was close to my hometown. We used to say to each other: next year same place... the following year instead of summer colonies I found myself at
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in a crown of thorns covered in paint. Religious motifs, iconic images of historical events and people, press clips and holy images are all montaged in a sequence that stimulates imagination and affect, driving both to the very limits of
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In 1971 Maryan had a mental breakdown, and temporarily lost his ability to speak. To overcome this state, his psychiatrist told him to draw depictions of his life story. In a year he created a series of drawings, later titled
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Most of the things written about me are empty of content. They also say that I am a bad person (this is also true). As for my paintings, I officially declare that I would call them true paintings.
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