Location: Traveling exhibit and online. See www.artandremembrance for current location of exhibit and online Gallery.
Focus: Holocaust, human rights, social justice, family
Size: 36
Private/Public: Public
Description: Later in her life, Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz created a series of fabric collage and embroidered panels, each with stitched narrative captions, depicting her life in pre-war Poland, her survival as a teenager during the war, and her arrival in the U.S. after the war.
Contact: Bernice Steinhardt, Bernice@artandremembrance.org
Other Info: To honor their mother’s legacy and to share it widely, Esther’s daughters, Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade, created Art and Remembrance, a non-profit organization that has created a traveling exhibit, an award-winning film, Through the Eye of the Needle, and a book, Memories of Survival. (The film can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvlhYCKruQ.) A&R also uses Esther’s work to inspire immigrants, at-risk youth and other students to share their own stories in story cloths.
Focus: Holocaust, human rights, social justice, family
Size: 36
Private/Public: Public
Description: Later in her life, Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz created a series of fabric collage and embroidered panels, each with stitched narrative captions, depicting her life in pre-war Poland, her survival as a teenager during the war, and her arrival in the U.S. after the war.
Contact: Bernice Steinhardt, Bernice@artandremembrance.org
Other Info: To honor their mother’s legacy and to share it widely, Esther’s daughters, Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade, created Art and Remembrance, a non-profit organization that has created a traveling exhibit, an award-winning film, Through the Eye of the Needle, and a book, Memories of Survival. (The film can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvlhYCKruQ.) A&R also uses Esther’s work to inspire immigrants, at-risk youth and other students to share their own stories in story cloths.
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