AN ARTIST’S personal tribute to thousands who died in Nazi raids can be seen at an exhibition commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day at The Dukes theatre's gallery.

Diana Zwibach’s work is in both public and private collections worldwide and is on display at Lancaster's The Dukes from January 26-February 1.

Diana's Responses To Racija reflects on the Hungarian-Nazi raid and murder of 1,327 citizens of Novi Sad within three days in January 1942.

The raid took place on the frozen river Danube where soldiers broke the ice, shot innocent people and then threw them into the freezing water.

The attack was part of a systematic programme all over Nazi-occupied Europe and in former Yugoslavia where Diana’s family come from.

Diana, who lives in Blackpool, is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor born in Novi Sad and many of her family died in Auschwitz.

She said: “Today when we see sectarianism and racism prevalent in all parts of the world and also witness groups of Holocaust deniers, it is our duty to inform, pass on the truths and keep alive the happenings that occurred to do with ethnic cleansing and discrimination so that the awareness and the knowledge of these events may not happen again.”

Diana spent part of her childhood in Ethiopia and Tel Aviv and was evacuated with her mother to Rome during the Six Day War.

She completed a degree in fine art in Jerusalem before winning a scholarship to London where she took a post graduate degree in printmaking followed by a masters degree at the Royal College of Art.

Diana met her husband, a Blackpool businessman, on a London bus and they married in 1975, the same year of her first major exhibition.

Holocaust Memorial Day is January 27. Responses To Racija is part of Lancaster’s commemorations which run from January 18-February 1. They also include a Dukes cinema screening of Night Will Fall (15), a new film marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Responses To Racija, which is an exhibition of oil paintings, drawing and mono printing, and can be viewed in The Dukes gallery during The Dukes normal opening hours.

Those who are making a special trip to see the show are advised to first contact the box office on 01524-598500 as sometimes the gallery is used for other activities.