The scorched, mutilated book wrapped in an incomplete wire grid is Nicastri's visual metaphor for the Holocaust and the Nazi burning of Jewish books. The wooden pine box without nails signifies the Jewish coffin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive lent several works to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Consists of artist's personal statement of purpose for the Holocaust proposals and thirteen pages with descriptive text and brown ink drawings devoted to specific projects. Themes include Hitler's Eyes, Tunnel of Hope, Hanging Books, The Medical Block and Monument for Oklahoma City. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A presentation piece for Nicastri's monumental Holocaust project consisting of sculptures, boxes, poem objects, books, installation art, and texts. Includes "A Surplus of Memory" exhibition, detailed critical and descriptive essays by the artist, quotations from survivors, art historians and Nazi perpetrators. The ink line drawings are mainly done on the margins of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of the book Nicasti used is "Surgery: Its Principles & Practice." The front cover is opened with rows of nails on the outside front cover. The back cover has an attached wooden box containing a shattered plexiglas cylinder and gauge. An abstract plexiglas form is built into the fastened pages of the book. A small sculptural element, composed of a collaged wooden fragment with rows of nails, contains a partial index of the medical text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was co-curated by Alma on Dobbin (N.Y.) and Laura Kruger. The exhibition was done in tribute to 600,000 Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Waldsee was a deception by the Nazis as a ficticious place from where postcards of lies describing their happiness as dictated by the Nazis were sent to other Jews but in reality were written before being killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This sculpture provides a visual/verbal vignette of the fragility of the first breath of life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.