ABOUT THE SCULPTURE

The Unknown Child Foundation commissioned Canadian artist Rick Wienecke – who resides in Israel – to create the sculpture of the Unknown Child. Wienece has crafted other Holocaust sculptures in Auschwitz, Israel and Poland. The 1.5 million pennies collected by the Pennies Project will surround the placement of the sculpture to represent the one and a half million children murder by the Nazis.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Though not Jewish, Canadian sculptor Rick Wienecke found himself drawn to Israel in his personal search for God. Fascinated with the country’s rise out of the ashes of the Holocaust, he became an Israeli citizen and spent 25 years creating Holocaust-related art, including The Fountain of Tears. See his work at castingseeds.com.