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Lost Flowers
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In the 1970s, Weisel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, made a series of abstract paintings inspired by her father’s tattoo from Auschwitz. The central rectangle in this painting resembles a…

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Mindy Weisel

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1979

Subjects:

Art, Painting, Holocaust, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting with thick border of abstract flower with hand shapes and Hebrew word in its center.
First Proclamation: 26 May 1941
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A fire is now sweeping over the whole Old World, threatening to annihilate, heaven forbid, more than two-thirds of the Jewish people. Nobody can guarantee that the fire, heaven…

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Yosef Yitshak Schneersohn

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Date:

1941

Subjects:

Holocaust, Theology, Jewish identity, Antisemitism

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Religion & Theology, Political Culture, Sermons
The Martyrdom of the 93 Beit Ya‘akov Girls
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We cleansed our bodies and we are pure, We cleansed our spirits and are at peace. Death does not frighten us, We shall meet it calmly. We served God with…

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Hillel Bavli

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Date:

1943

Subjects:

Martyrdom, Women, Purity, Prayer, Holocaust

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Poetry, Literature, Religion & Theology