Lovingly painted childhood memories reveal life in prewar Jewish town
A once-thriving Jewish community shattered by the Holocaust, yet miraculously resurrected decades later by a self-taught artist, is the subject of a new book and exhibition at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. CE Report quoting The First News
Before the Holocaust, Jewish life in Opatów flourished and, growing up in the town, a young Mayer Kirshenbalt would often skip school to observe the hustle and bustle of everyday life which fascinated him.
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