Author Description

"Kaddish in Wood is an exhibition of handmade woodcarvings by Dr. Herbert Savel, a physician who lives and works in Elizabethtown, New York. Trained in the German woodcarving technique, Savel creates these three-dimensional reliefs after Holocaust-era photos of Nazi victims. While he has created several hundred of these woodcarvings, this exhibition is made up of 130 children, with a focus on the French"--