Nathan Rapoport

Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987) was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.

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.^[1] In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987.

His sculptures in public places, with the year they were installed in, include:

• Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948), bronze, Warsaw, Poland
• Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem;^[2] a slightly modified replica of the Warsaw monument^[3]
  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze^[2]
  • The Last March, bronze^[2]
• Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951), at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel^[2]
• Monument to Six Million Jewish Martrys (1964), at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.
• Scroll of Fire (1971) in the Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem
• Liberation (Holocaust memorial) (1985), bronze, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Korczak'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

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  Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948) in Warsaw, west side
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  Warsaw monument, east side
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  Menorah from the Warsaw monument
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  The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
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  The Last March (1976), bronze, part of the Yad Vashem memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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  Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951) at Yad Mordechai, Israel
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  Kibbutz Negba, memorial to the participants in the 1948 battles
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  Scroll of Fire (1971), Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem

• Coen, Paolo, «L’artista reagisce in modo artistico. Questa è la sua arma». Riflessioni di valore introduttivo sul rapporto arte-Shoah, da Alexander Bogen e Nathan Rapoport a Richard Serra, in Vedere l'Altro, vedere la Shoah, with an appendix by Angelika Schallenberg, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012, pp. 6–68
• Gilbert, Martin. (1987), The Holocaust, New York, Random House, 1987, 317–324.
• Sohar, Zvi, Fighters Memorial, Monuments to the Fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Sifriat Poalim, Workers' Book Guild, 1964.
• Yaffe, Richard, Nathan Rapoport Sculptures and Monuments, New York, Shengold Publishers, 1980.

Media related to Natan Rapoport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Rapaport's works in Central Jewish Library
• "Nathan Rapoport". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
• Nathan Rapoport collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved February 2012.
• POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews