Danish artist: gold teeth used in Auschwitz work

[Behind the Aegis]

COPENHAGEN - A Danish artist has used teeth and gold fillings to build a sculpture commemorating the horrors of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.

The work exhibited Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, depicts a toy-sized train heading toward the entrance of the camp.

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Copenhagen, Denmark - A Danish artist claims he used teeth and gold fillings to build a sculpture commemorating the horrors of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.


The work exhibited Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, depicts a toy-sized diamond-studded train heading toward the entrance of the camp.


Marco Evaristti , a Chilean-born Buddhist convert with Jewish parents, said parts of the 5.1-pound (2.3-kilogram) sculpture were built with enamel and gold fillings from teeth that he bought in Austria from a person who said they came from Nazi death camps. The artist told The Associated Press he "cannot be positively sure" about that claim but added, "I have to believe what he told me."

He said he also used three teeth from his grandmother that he had received from his mother. The grandmother was Jewish but didn't die in a concentration camp.

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Danish artist Marco Evaristti who is a Chilean born Buddhist convert with Jewish parents has built a sculpture commemorating the horrors of the Auschwitz Nazi Camp, in which he is reported to have used teeth and gold fillings. The work was exhibited for the 65th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation and some parts of the 2.3kg sculpture were built from enamel and gold fillings from teeth that he brought from Austria from a person who claimed that they came from the Nazi death camp. Of course, he himself could not confirm the certainty of the claim. He has also used three teeth from his Jewish grandmother who did not die in a concentration camp. In an attempt to signify that time cannot erase past, he has made use of diamonds too since 'diamonds are forever'. The exhibition also includes a set of rails and a train carriage in white gold with 11 karat diamonds. In the carriage sculls of red gold are looking out of the window.

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[DRoseDARs]

1. I get the sentiment, but it strikes me as rather poor *cough* taste to use the victims' teeth.

That he got the material from, and I'm paraphrasing here, "some guy in Austria" just makes it worse. :-/

Oh, and my rec canceled an unrec. I get that people don't like that system, but could you leave threads like this out of that debate?

[Berry Cool]

2. And he used diamonds because he fell for a marketing slogan? n/t

[COLGATE4]

3. No different than using human skulls

dug up from Auschwitz (or any of the other killing grounds). In terrible taste and a desecration of those who were murdered.