The Suitcase
2024 Oil on Canvas 90cm x 70cm
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Nominated for an award at the Portobello Film Festival 2024
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"Artist Caroline Poole tells the story about the suitcase her Hungarian Jewish grandparents brought to England in 1946.
The suitcase contains stories about her childhood, her many family members murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp and stories about survival.
Her father, after studying in Switzerland, came to London as a young man and was viewed here in the UK as an enemy alien during the second world war despite being an engineer helping with the war effort.
Her grandparents were baptised in Hungary and somehow managed to survive. The family were living in the shadow of an existential threat in Hungary at that time: Hitler was looming over their shoulders.
Were the family aware of what was to befall them? And if so what could they have done to escape? Life is fragile, what seems stable and secure can turn upside down overnight.
Some of Caroline's landscape paintings explore loss, the pine trees falling off the cliffs due to climate change."
With thanks to Myrna Shoa and West London Films.
The suitcase contains stories about her childhood, her many family members murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp and stories about survival.
Her father, after studying in Switzerland, came to London as a young man and was viewed here in the UK as an enemy alien during the second world war despite being an engineer helping with the war effort.
Her grandparents were baptised in Hungary and somehow managed to survive. The family were living in the shadow of an existential threat in Hungary at that time: Hitler was looming over their shoulders.
Were the family aware of what was to befall them? And if so what could they have done to escape? Life is fragile, what seems stable and secure can turn upside down overnight.
Some of Caroline's landscape paintings explore loss, the pine trees falling off the cliffs due to climate change."
With thanks to Myrna Shoa and West London Films.