ARGENTINA: Jewish community inaugurates portrait exhibit of Holocaust survivors living in Argentina

Record ID: 444791

  • Title: ARGENTINA: Jewish community inaugurates portrait exhibit of Holocaust survivors living in Argentina
  • Date: 8th March 2008
  • Summary: (L!WE) BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (FEBRUARY 28, 2008) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN HOLOCAUST MUSEUM PICTURES VARIOUS OF CONCENTRATION CAMP UNIFORM WOMAN READING STORY AT PORTRAIT EXHIBIT VARIOUS OF PICTURES OF CONCENTRATION CAMP WOMAN'S HAND LEANING ON CANE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) EVENT ORGANIZER GRACIELA NABEL DE JINICH SAYING: "The plan started about two years a
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Argentina
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA1ESFFZXF8PY4UAP6I9IA4EOUS
  • Story Text: Holocaust survivors who escaped the horrors of Nazi Germany were honored in Buenos Aires on Friday (February 29) with an exhibit of portraits.
    Held at the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, the grainy, black and white images of concentration camps, part of the museum's permanent exhibit, took on new meaning as the halls and rooms filled with over 30 men and women who lived through the camps.
    People browsed the wall of 35 portraits, each hung with a placard showing the names of survivors and a short description of their trials during World War II.
    Event organizer Graciela Nabel de Jinich said the portraits allowed people to personalize the individuals who forced across the sea decades ago.

    "The plan started about two years ago with the idea of being able to transmit and leave the legacy of these people who witnessed the Holocaust to younger people. Why the portraits? To be able to leave behind in each one of them their face, their footprint, their gaze and also to recover their signature and their name. Putting all this together with a fragment of their story is what we are representing today. It's so young people can know there aren't just two or three survivors in Argentina but many more, and each has their own style, their own personality, their own story," she said.
    Moises Borowicz from Sokoli, Poland looked solemnly at his portrait.
    Just 12 when the war started, both of his parents were killed at Treblinka and two of his brothers were shot by SS officers before he was able to escape.
    Survivor David Weinstock, also a Pole, said the exhibit was a source of pride.

    "Despite the fact that 60 years have passed since the war, it's something nice for me and a source of pride for everyone that people can see we've been through so many bad things and we've survived. The dead don't speak. That's what the exhibition is for. It's beautiful. I didn't imagine it would be like this," he said.
    Argentina had an open door policy on Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution and the country now has the largest Jewish community in Latin America.
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