Magnified musically: Obscure Holocaust prison camp inspires Stanford's artist ...
On Oct. 22, 1940, 11 years before Trimpin was born, 7,500 Jews from the Black Forest region had been deported to a little known prison camp in the Basque region of southwestern France, near the village of Gurs. Tragic fates awaited many of them....
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May 12, 2011
Magnified musically: Obscure Holocaust prison camp inspires Stanford’s artist-in-residence
As a boy growing up in Germany’s Black Forest — a region best known for its cuckoo clocks — Gerhard Trimpin stumbled upon ... and for the Gurs project he has created two 30-foot teeter-totters with rolling speakers playing recorded sounds and newly ...
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May 11, 2011
