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 Nazi Germans 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.Monumental art
His sculptures in public places, with the year they were installed in, include:Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, bronze, Warsaw, PolandMemorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; a slightly modified replica of the Warsaw monument- * The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze
- * The Last March, bronzeMonument to Mordechai Anielewicz, at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, IsraelMonument to Six Million Jewish Martrys, at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA. Scroll of Fire in the Forest of the Martyrs near JerusalemLiberation (Holocaust memorial), bronze, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New JerseyKorczak's Last Walk at the Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY.
- Ghetto Square Monument at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/warsaw-memorial-personal-interpretation.html