[1] Elie Wiesel, "Art and the Holocaust: Trivializing Memory," New York Times, Sunday, 11 June l989, sec. 2. [2] The literature on the destruction of the Gypsies is complicated by negative stereotypes both before and after World War II, lack of literary tradition among the Romani and Sinti peoples, absence of significant numbers of both memoirs and scholarly books and few representative artists. The only Gypsy artist who has been exhibited recently is Karl Stojko, who survived Auschwitz and lives in Austria. [3] Raul Hilberg, Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders (New York: HarperCollins, l992), 11. [4] James T. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, l988), 96-97. [5] Leonard Baskin, Iconologia (London: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, l988), 22. [6] Ibid., 23. [7] Wiesel, "Art and the Holocaust." [8] Frank Rich, "The Holocaust Boom," New York Times, 7 April 1994, A15. [9] Raul Hilberg, "Conscience from Burlington," Hadassah Magazine, August/September 1991, 23. [10] Primo Levi as quoted in Michael Kimmelman, "Horror Unforgotten: The Politics of Memory," New York Times, Friday, 11 March 1994, B1. [11] Wiesel, "Art and the Holocaust." [12] Paul Richard, "Obscene Pleasure: Art Among the Corpses," Washington Post, Sunday, 18 April 1993, G6. [13] Ken Johnson, "Art and Memory," Art in America, November 1993, 98. [14] For purposes of the exhibition, "American" was defined as artists currently living and working in the United States. [15] "Minutes of the Exhibition Jury, March 16, 1943, Vilna Ghetto." Translation of YIVO Document #466 by Dina Abramowicz. (New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research). [16] Samuel Bak as quoted in Bak: Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, 1972-1974 (New York: Aberbach Fine Art, October-November 1974), 3. [17] Paul Kresh, "Photograph Exhibit Evokes Memories of the Holocaust," Jewish Weeks, Inc., May l0-l6, 1991, 38. [18] Joyce Lyon, Conversations with Rzezsow (Minneapolis: Wallace Carlson Co., 1993). [19] Pier Marton, letter to Stephen Feinstein, 11 April l994. [20] For an extended discussion of Weisel's background with longer personal statements, see Vivian Alpert Thompson, A Mission in Art (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, l988), 94-95. Weisel's mother died in 1994. [21] Adam Gopnik, "Comics and Catastrophe," New Republic, 22 June l987. [22] Ibid. [23] Galerie St. Etienne, Art Spiegelman: The Road to Maus (New York: Galerie St. Etienne, l992). Exhibition brochure.