One of my more recent projects was the creation of a model German boxcar filled with horror-stricken figures. The boxcar reflects a tangible portent of monumental suffering and misery. It is, in fact, a microcosm of genocide on an industrial scale. In other words, industrialization of death. As a Jewish American with family ties to the Holocaust, I feel a calling to keep a connection to history. The people who originally built the boxcars probably never dreamed they would be used to send people, not cattle, on a massive scale to their untimely deaths. The boxcar serves as a portent, a warning, a reminder of what human beings are capable of doing to one another, not just during the Holocaust, but today. The boxcar is 43” x 20” and contains more than 30 unique figures, each approximately 5” tall. I recently added a guard tower that is 9.5”x 33".
Below are some of the individual figures that fill the boxcar.
