Artist Bill Jordan expects his latest sculpture to spark controversy.

The Nazi jackboot crushing a severed arm and hand clutching barbed wire is to be featured in an exhibition to commemorate the Holocaust.

"I can see it stirring some emotions -- it could be controversial, especially because of the finger gesture," said Mr Jordan, of Bridge Street, Oakworth.

The sculpture is to be exhibited at the Sun Caf art gallery, in Lancaster, from January 27, as part of a show to mark the slaughter of six million Jews by German Nazis in the Second World War. Mr Jordan was commissioned by gallery owner Paul Krudas, who had seen some of his work used as props for a stage play in Kendal.

"I feel very strongly about any genocide. You can get prosecuted for speeding in this country, but slaughter hundreds of thousands of people -- like in Bosnia, Rowanda and Afghanistan -- and people can get away with it.

"Only 17 Nazis, I believe, were convicted of the extermination of six million Jews," said Mr Jordan.

Mr Jordan, who is the creator of replica limestone pavement -- a substitute to stop the real thing being robbed from the countryside -- researched the Nazi era at Keighley reference library.

"The arm contains a genuine tattoo number from the arm of a concentration camp victim," said Mr Jordan, 57.

"The finger is a symbol of defiance -- it is saying no matter how terrible the oppression, humanity always fights back. And the base contains references to the German SS, including the emblem for the race and settlement department."

Mr Jordan builds his creations out of cement on a wire and mesh frame.

Mr Jordan's method of producing replica limestone pavement is being produced by Keighley company, Abbey Art Stone.