Nathan Rapoport

Nathan Rapoport (1911-1987), who is also known as Natan Rapoport, was a Jewish sculptor who was born in Warsaw, Poland. His middle name may be rendered in English as either Yaakov or Jacob. In 1936, he won a scholarship to study in France and Italy. He fled to the Soviet Union when the Nazis invaded Poland. The Soviets initially provided him with a studio, but later compelled him to work as a manual laborer. After the end of hostilities, he returned to Poland to study at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 1950, Rapoport immigrated to the United States, where he lived in New York until his death in 1987.

His sculptures in public places include:

• Liberation (Holocaust memorial), 1985, bronze, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland.
• Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
• The Last March, bronze sculpture in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
• The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze sculpture in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
• Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial at Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.
• Korczak's Last Walk at the Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY.

Gallery

• 'The Last March', bronze sculpture by Natan Yaakov Rapoport (1911-77), Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.jpg

  The Last March, bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

• 'The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising', bronze sculpture by Natan J. Rapoport, 1947, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.jpg

  The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport, 1947, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

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  Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw by Nathan Rapoport

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  Monument seen from the east side

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  Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz at Yad Mordechai, Israel

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  Monument at Kibbuz Negba, Israel by Natan Rapoport

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  Scrolls of Fire by Natan Rapoport, near Jerusalem, Israel

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  Menorah (Hanukkah) from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument

References

• 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.