Prior Image 
10/06/2012 - 09/01/2013
American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD
Art and Remembrance is a non-profit, arts and educational organization that seeks to change people's hearts and minds by illuminating the experience of war, oppression, and injustice through the power and passion of personal narrative in art.
THE DENTIST
No. 9
(From the picture): " July 1940. I had heard that the Nazis had a dentist in their camp, so when I developed a terrible toothache, I got one of my Polish friends to go to the camp with me. Since the Germans wouldn't have helped me if they had known I was Jewish, I taught my friend to say, in German, 'My sister has a toothache.' After the dentist took out my tooth, he gave me a bar of chocolate. When I got home, my mother was shocked that I had had the nerve to go to the Nazis for help."
Embroidery and fabric collage, 1997.
29-1/4"W x 33"H .
Gallery narration by Esther's daughters.
(From the picture): " July 1940. I had heard that the Nazis had a dentist in their camp, so when I developed a terrible toothache, I got one of my Polish friends to go to the camp with me. Since the Germans wouldn't have helped me if they had known I was Jewish, I taught my friend to say, in German, 'My sister has a toothache.' After the dentist took out my tooth, he gave me a bar of chocolate. When I got home, my mother was shocked that I had had the nerve to go to the Nazis for help."
Embroidery and fabric collage, 1997.
29-1/4"W x 33"H .
Gallery narration by Esther's daughters.