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Dallas exhibit features powerful stories from teen Holocaust victim’s diary
Dallas exhibit options teen Holocaust sufferer’s diary
A robust new exhibit is open on the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. It is impressed by the diary of a 14-year-old Jewish lady who was residing in a Polish ghetto. Not like Anne Frank, whose household was rich, this lady’s story is that of the extra typical household.
DALLAS – A robust new exhibit is open on the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum impressed by the diary of a 14-year-old Jewish lady residing in a Polish ghetto.
The story behind the Woman within the Diary exhibit goes again to 1945. That’s when the diary was discovered within the ashes of a destroyed crematorium of Auschwitz.
That diary belonged to 14-year-old Rywka Lipszyc.
“Rywka is a woman, a youngster. And I believe that’s one of many issues individuals will likely be stunned with. She’s sturdy. She may be imply. She may be powerful. She’s persistent. She’s dedicated to God,” stated Jakub Nowakowski, the exhibit’s co-curator.
Rywka’s diary is the story of a kid who misplaced her siblings and fogeys however held on to her religion.
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It has been translated into English and supplemented with commentary from historians, medical doctors, psychologists and rabbis.
It additionally has unique artifacts and fleeting candid images of others who lived within the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Poland.
It’s a really totally different story than that of Anne Frank, probably the most well-known diary documentation from the Holocaust.
Rywka’s story is that of the extra typical Jewish household.
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“Anne Frank got here from a rich assimilated household that was in a position to flee German and transfer to Holland. She was hidden and he or she had a horrific expertise however was together with her household. Rywka was from a decrease earnings household and was moved into the ghetto,” stated Mary Pat Higgins, the museum’s president and CEO.
The objective is to assist reconstruction her life and what may need occurred to her after she was despatched to Auschwitz.
There aren’t any identified images of her, so the exhibit paints her life primarily based on her written account, with images of different Jews from that point, within the hopes that they won’t be forgotten.
The Woman within the Diary exhibit runs by means of the tip of the yr. For extra data, go to www.dhhrm.org/the-girl-in-the-diary/.