Heder, Slonim, Russia

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.25

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

1938

Files

Content Warning

The Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection consists of images, documents, and artifacts related to the Holocaust. The collection contains materials that depict a number of topics that may be difficult for viewers to engage with, including: antisemitic descriptions, caricatures, and representation of Jewish people; Nazi imagery and ideology; descriptions and images of German ghettos; graphic images of the violence of the Holocaust; and the creation of the State of Israel. For more information, see our policy page.

Description

Front: Black and white photograph of a man in a hat with a long white beard standing at the front of a classroom of boys in caps, sitting at long wooden desks with books open.Back: Three white stickers with various messages.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Photograph from Roman Vishniac's The Vanished World. Vishniac photographed the shtetl Jews of Eastern Europe, from 1933 to 1940, just before the Holocaust was to destroy their communities, stating that "The life of the Jews even before the Holocaust was hard and bitter... With photography I could save at least a memory of Jewish life and culture, and the faces of the people. I thought that years and years after the killing, future generations of Jews would be interested to hear of the life that disappeared, the life that is no more." Heder, Slonim, Russia, 1938. “In Slonim, the teacher used the only tool that works: friendship and love. And he was very successful in this.” Roman Vishniac, 1977.

Dimensions

10 x 8"

Keywords

Witkin Gallery, Stamp, The Vanished World, Heder, Slonim, Russia, Roman Vishniac

Subcollection

Pre-1933: Jewish Life in Europe before Holocaust

Recommended Citation

"Heder, Slonim, Russia" (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.25.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/148