Nathan Rapoport
Nathan Rapoport was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.Biography
Natan Yaakov Rapoport was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1936, he won a scholarship to study in France and Italy. He fled to the Soviet Union when the Nazis invaded Poland. The Soviets initially provided him with a studio, but then forced him to work as a manual laborer. When the war ended, he returned to Poland to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and immigrated to Israel. In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987.Art career
His sculptures in public places include:
- Liberation , 1985, bronze, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
- Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland.
- Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
- The Last March, bronze sculpture in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze sculpture in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Monument to Six Million Jewish Martrys at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.
- Korczak's Last Walk'' at the Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY.
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