The Simpsons Go to Auschwitz

This Thursday, April 16, is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Zachary Solomon for Jewniverse


You may have missed Italian artist aleXsandro Palombo’s work commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. You may be glad you did.

For the anniversary, Palombo released a series of illustrations featuring characters from The Simpsons as Holocaust victims. The images are grotesque and uncanny, and find the Simpsons clan standing before Auschwitz’s infamous wrought-iron promise of “Arbeit Macht Frei,” bone-thin and beaten behind barbed wire, or naked and near-dead in a gray, claw-marked gas chamber. In short, the images are horrifying.

Continue reading.

Check out Jvillage’s Modern Jewish Holiday page    page.