New York Times Publication – Yury Kharchenko

GERMAN IDENTITY, Oberhausen,12 October 2018, Yury Kharchenko in his atelier. Left is a portrait oif the artist Felix Nussbaum who was murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz and on the right it's a portrait of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. — GERMAN IDENTITY, Oberhausen,12 October 2018, Yury Kharchenko in his atelier. Left is a portrait of the Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum who was murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz and on the right a portrait of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. Photo by Laetitia Vancon

GERMAN IDENTITY, 12 October 2018, portrait of Yury Kharchenko in his atelier in Oberhausen. Photo by Laetitia Vancon

“Mr. Kharchenko, an artist, at an exhibition of his work in Dortmund. After the Holocaust, he said, “The Germans were subdued, but now as they are starting to reclaim their identity and trying to be normal again, all these extremes are thriving.”

“As a Jew in Germany, said Mr. Kharchenko, the Berlin-based artist, “You’re inevitably asking yourself: Could it happen again?”