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The pine forest
"July 1942. My father had been
collecting pine tar for a local landowner when the Gestapo ordered
my brother Ruven to report to Janiszew labor camp. My mother pleaded
with my father to go in my brother's place, crying that he would not
survive after his recent recovery from typhoid. My father said that
neither one of them would go, and took my brother into the forest
with him. They had built a hut for themselves where they slept and
worked. For the rest of that summer, my mother would bring food to
them, and sometimes I would go with her."
Embroidery and fabric collage, 1996.
28"W x 34"H. |
