PHOTOS: Lodz Ghetto photographs by Polish Jewish photojournalist Hernryk Ross on exhibit through Feb. 25 at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Jewish Ghetto Photographers: Reimagining the Holocaust will be the topic of the Alan Ostrow Memorial lecture at the Portland Art Museum. Judith Cohen, director of photo archives at the United…
PHOTO: Museum and Holocaust Educator Amanda Solomon points to a photo from the Lodz Ghetto. She says when students see real people in the photos, they ask important questions that have no easy answers. After four years as a middle school math teacher, Amanda Solomon wanted to have a greater impact. On the March…
As an assistant professor at the Jewish Theological Seminar in 1989, David Fishman was asked to help evaluate an archive of Jewish materials discovered in Vilnius, Lithuania. Over the next two decades, David followed the trail of the Jewish books and documents that Jewish writers and thinkers smuggled out of Nazi hands to be hidden…
PHOTO: Lodz Ghetto. Boy walking to deportation in a group, wearing cap, satchel and backpack, February 1944. Photo by Henryk Ross. ©Art Gallery of Ontario, gift from the Archive of Modern Conflict. “I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.” ~ Henryk Ross This…
