Otakar Dušek Receives Mel Wacks Judaica Art Medal Award for Women's Death March Medal

The newly established Mel Wacks Judaica Art Medal Award was presented at the 2018 XXXV FIDEM Art Medal Congress awards banquet in Ottawa on June 3 rd . It was awarded to Otakar Dušek, fromthe Czech Republic, for his Todesmarsch (Death March) medal "that breaks down barriers for medallic art that have been in place since the Renaissance. It shows how a relatively small medal can havesignificance far beyond its size," said Wacks in his presentation.

The medal fit into the theme of the FIDEM conference-Women and the Art Medal.

Here is a description of this project in Otakar's words:

For further information about Project Todesmarch, you can contact Otakar Dušek at o.dusek@seznam.cz.