upwelling

kristallnacht

Pie Factory Margate

2022

kristallnacht continues the story of threads.
I am lost in a labyrinth searching for meaning in the remnants of all that remains.

When my mother Bina left Vienna in 1939 to escape from the Nazis. Bina’s father and mother Markus and Bruche sent her many letters. 
They show the route she travelled when she became a refugee, or a person seeking refuge. 

Markus and Bruche Korngold were killed on 9th September 1942.

Bina met my father Reg Marks at a refugee centre in Milford on Sea where he worked. Bina and Reg married in 1939. 
My sister Gita was born in 1940 andI was born in 1948.

Benno and Leo settled in Australia. Bina stayed in England until she died in 1997. 

Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazis on  9th November 1938.

This artwork is dedicated to the preciousness of all human life.