Three Student School, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938.

Authors

Object ID

2021.1.117i

Object Name

Photograph

Date

1938

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Description

Three young boys sitting in front of a table with several books on it.

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

In the little village in Carpathian Ruthenia, where such little boys studied in a tiny school, the teacher was not paid in money. He would get a little milk from one student. Another student would bring him some wood to make a fire. A third would bring him a potato. But all this payment was not enough, not sufficient for his existence, for his wife and children.

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

Dimensions

15 3/8 x 15 3/8"

Keywords

Vishniac

Subcollection

Pre-1933: Jewish Life in Europe before Holocaust

Recommended Citation

"Three Student School, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938." (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.117i.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1829