Heder, Slonim, Russia, 1938.

Authors

Object ID

2021.1.117h

Object Name

Photograph

Date

1938

Files

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Description

A group of schoolboys being taught in a classroom by an elderly teacher.

Text by Roman Vishniac in The Vanished World: A limited-edition portfolio published by Witkin-Berley Ltd.

In Slonim, the teacher used the only medium, the only tool that works: friendship and love. And he was very successful in this.

Image Courtesy of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley.

Dimensions

15 1/4 x 15 1/4"

Keywords

Vishniac

Subcollection

Pre-1933: Jewish Life in Europe before Holocaust

Recommended Citation

"Heder, Slonim, Russia, 1938." (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.117h.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1828