Second Generation Artists

Pier Marton

Born in France of parents who were in the French Resistance in World War II and now a Professor of Film at Washington University in Saint Louis, Marton has established an edge in film-making by exploring televison imagery and text, issues of male self-identification, violence and general conditioning, and the memory of the Holocaust among children of survivors. His works are shown in museums around the United States as well as in Europe.

Debbie Teicholz

A child of Holocaust survivors from Hungary and a graduate of New York University's film program. A photographer with intense interest in the Holocaust, she has exhibited extensively in the United States and in Israel. She now lives in New Jersey.

Mindy Weisel

Born in Bergen-Belsen DP camp after World War II and the Holocaust, Weisel now lives in Washington, D.C. and is an Adjunct Professor at the Corcoran Museum of Art, School of Art. She has exhibited extensively around the United States and is represented in the permanent collections of the Hirshorn Museum, Smithsonian in Washington, DC., the Jewish Museum of New York, Yad VaShem in Jerusalem and other collections.

Art Spiegelman

Well-known cartoonist and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his book MAUS: A Survivor's Tale, Spiegelman started as a cartoonist for RAW MAGAZINE (a comic book) and continues to deal with cartoons as his prime means of artistic expression. He has worked also as a cartoonist for "The New Yorker" magazine. Spiegelman's parents were both Holocaust survivors from Poland.Spiegelman's latest work is "In the Shadow of No Towers," published in 2004.

Joyce Lyon

A child of refugees from Poland and a Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota. Primarily a landscape painter, Lyon became interested in landscape as a metaphor for absence and the memories of the Holocaust in her family. She has exhibited extensively around the United States and her works are held in many private collections.