Witness to the Holocaust is a set of six sculptures created by artist Devorah Sperber. The sculpture series represents the process through which the artist came to terms with her family’s history during World War II, and her questioning of what it means to be a second generation survivor. The sculpture series traveled with the Anne Frank Exhibition for over 25 years before arriving at the Strauss Health Sciences Library in 2018 as a gift from Hannah Sperber, the mother of the artist.

The bronze castings were patinaed to retain the natural qualities found in the original stone sculptures from which they were cast. The sculptures are accompanied by selected quotes from The Diary of Anne Frank. The library displays the sculptures in collaboration with the Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. Click here for more information on the sculpture series and the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.