Haim Maor (born 1951) is an Israeli painter and academic.

Early life

Haim Maor was born in Jaffa, Israel in 1951. His parents are

Holocaust survivors Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Axis powers, its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no unive ...

of Polish Jewish descent.

Career

Maor is a painter. His artwork focuses on representations of the Holocaust. His work has been exhibited at the

Auschwitz Jewish Center Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

. He was the recipient of The Minister of Science and Art Prize in 1994, the Sussman Prize from

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...

in 1995, and The Ministry of Culture and Sport Prize in 2010. Maor is also an Arts professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in

Beersheba Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...

, Israel.

References

1951 births Living people Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Israeli painters Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev {{israel-artist-stub