06/14/2009 - 10/25/2009
Oceanside Museum of Art
Oceanside, San Diego County, California
Oceanside, San Diego County, California
"Yesterday I presented every thing I found on your website to my students and colleagues. I am afraid they do not know too much about what happened here in Poland 60 years ago .... I think that is very sad. When we forget about our past, how do we want to create our future? What shall we learn from?" -- Dariusz, teacher in Poland
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NEW!!
2008 Wall Calendar
Esther's Story
ESTHER NISENTHAL KRINITZ, along with her sister Mania, were the only members of their family, and among the few Jews in their Polish village, to survive the Holocaust. At the age of 15, Esther refused the Nazi order for the Jews to report to a nearby railroad station for relocation. She and her sister separated from their family and never saw them again.
In 1977, at the age of 50, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz began creating works of fabric art to depict her stories of survival. Over a 20-year period she created a collection of 36 needlework and fabric collage pictures which are now on public exhibition.