Ludovit Feld, the Little Giant: Artist, Rescuer, and Auschwitz Survivor

WHO:             Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center

WHAT:           Ludovit Feld, the Little Giant: Artist, Rescuer, and Auschwitz

                         Survivor

WHERE:        Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County

                        100 Crescent Beach Road

                        Glen Cove, New York 11542

WHEN:         Monday-Friday 10:00 am – 4:30 pm.

Most weekdays, docents available for guided tours.  Call to reserve.

Saturday, Sunday, and holidays 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

Saturdays and holidays, guided tours begin at 12:30pm.

Sundays, guided tours begin at 12:30pm and 1:30pm.

                        Requested admission donation:

Adults $10

Seniors (65+) $5

Students (to age 18) $4

 Ludovit Feld and his family were imprisoned in the Kosice Ghetto in 1944, and later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, Mengele selected Feld for medical experimentation because he was a dwarf, and was kept alive for his artistic talent. Housed together with “Mengele’s twins,” Feld hid several of them, ensuring their

rescue.

Ludovit Feld’s collection has been displayed in England, Hungary, Slovakia, and Israel, but for the first time, this private Holocaust art collection will be on display in the United States. Only two original pieces drawn in the ghetto are known to have survived; one is hanging in Yad Vashem’s museum in Jerusalem, and the other will be on display at the

Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center.

The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is in the forefront of the discussion and education of tolerance, and the only state-of-the-art museum of its kind on Long Island. Founded in 1992, the Center builds a bridge from history to the contemporary issues of prejudice and discrimination that many experience today.

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Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County

Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road

Glen Cove, New York 11542

(516) 571-8040 x107

Fax (516) 571-8041

www.holocaust-nassau.org