Heder, Slonim, Russia

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 2015_2_25_recto: 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.

Photograph from Roman Vishiac'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. "In Slonim, the teacher used the only tool that works: friendship and love. And he was very successful in this." Roman Vishniac, 1977.