Nyob rau hauv peb cov kev txhaj tshuaj nrog peb “Nrog ib tug neeg nyob hauv Caring” Qhov kev pab cuam nyiaj los ntawm lub UJA-Federation of New York, Tus Y yuav feature sib tham los ntawm rau lub zos survivors kom to taub txhua tus neeg zaj dabneeg. Cov kev sib tham no yuav raug showcased ntawm lub Hebrew Tabernacle gallery “Muaj ib lub sij hawm ua tsov ua rog thiab tshaj ntawd: Portraits ntawm Spirited Holocaust Survivors”. Lub gallery yuav qhib rau hnub Friday kaum ib hlis 8.
Hannah Eisner worked at the Y for 18 Xyoos, as an office manager for Project Hope and then as a program director in the senior center. She retired in 1987, but currently is the chair of the chesed committee, attends the Partner in Caring weekly discussion group, and on occasion teaches an origami class here at the Y once a week.
Hana Eisner(sculpture by Peter Bulow: www.peterbulow.com)
Hannah Eisner was born in Offenbach, Germany on November 12, 1924. She grew up in Offenbach with both of her parents. Her father worked as the vice president of a Jewish owned private bank and her mother was a stay at home mom. After 1934, Jewish children were not allowed to go to public schools, so they were taught by the Jewish teachers who were also not welcome in public schools. This is how the Jewish school in Offenbach came about. Hannah describes, “I did not feel so deprived. We had our own community.” She remembers that Jews were not allowed to go anywhere in town. There were signs outside movie theaters and businesses that said “Jews not wanted.” She explained the treatment of the Jews: “they were treated like nothings. Like vermin.”
Before Kristallnacht, the super intendant of the building that Hannah’s dad worked in asked him for a favor, which Hannah’s father was able to help with. , Hannah and her parents believe that the reason that her father was not taken to a concentration camp and that her apartment was not demolished was because the super intendant paid this favor back. He protected Hannah’s family. Hannah recalls, “I felt almost embarrassed when everyone else’s father was taken, but he was safe. Still, whenever the doorbell rang, one was afraid one would be taken away. One lived in utter fear.” Hannah remembers mostly how much fear she and her family lived in. She states that there was no justice for Jews.
There was a small Jewish population in Offenbach, and during Kristallnacht, almost all of the apartments were ransacked and the synagogue was set on fire. After Kristallnacht, Hannah remembers the devastation that took place and how it affected her and her community. She remembers getting ready to go to school the next day and being told by one of her classmates to go home because there is no school left. Later on, she and one of her friends walked to the school, “we looked into the broken windows, we saw it all black and burned.” Jewish businesses were greatly affected. Their stores were empty, and no gentile dared to go in. She also describes that her father was pushed out of his position at the bank as the bank was taken over by someone else who was not Jewish. “After Kristallnacht, we knew we had to get out if we could.”
After the events of Kristallnacht, Hannah and her family waited their number to be called in order to come to America. She feared that their number would not be called because the American consulate closed over the summer; however, their number was called before the consulate closed. While waiting for their number to get called, Hannah and her family prepared for their journey by taking the little money that they had left and buying clothes so that when they reached America, they would have clothes and shoes. Hannah remembers that each day she waited to leave for America, she watched as the Jewish community shrunk.
One of Hannah’s most vivid memories involves her friend Lisel Strauss. When one would receive an affidavit to leave the country, often times the affidavit was not big enough to cover the whole family. The Strauss family did not have an affidavit that would cover all four of them. So the family split up. The father and younger sister, Ellen, went to American first. Lisel and her mother stayed behind with the hope that the father would soon be able to get an affidavit for the two of them. But Lisel and her mother never got out. Ellen married a man who was in the leather business, specifically handbags. The handbags that they made were called the Lisette, which was named after Lisel. (Hannah still has her original handbag, pictured above).
Many of Hannah’s relatives perished in Nazi death camps. She had a cousin who was imprisoned in one of the camps. Her cousin found a boyfriend at the camp. The boyfriend had an opportunity to leave the camp, but he decided to stay with Hannah’s cousin. They both ended up being murdered in the camp together.
The Eisner’s came to America in April 1939. Hannah had relatives in New York who rented a room for her family for a short period of time. She remembers, “to my surprise, the freedom here, the abundance…after relatives had picked us up, they rented a room for us until our few belongings did come…they wanted me to buy things in the grocery store. So with my best English I went down and I said ‘can I have an egg or two?’ They said ‘what? Why don’t you take a dozen?’ These were the surprises of an immigrant.” Hannah’s family would rent five bedroom apartments, which was bigger than what they needed in order to rent out rooms to other refugees who could not afford their own apartments. Hannah remembers, “I never had a room of my own. For a long, long time because we rented out two rooms. But I’m glad to be alive.” When they first arrived, Hannah’s father took a job as a door-to-door salesman. This was a tremendous step down from his position at the bank, but it was the only work he was able to get. Eventually, he was fortunate enough to get a job as a shipping clerk. Hannah’s mother worked very little from home; she stitched slippers together.
Hannah was 14 years old when she came to America. She attended junior high school and then George Washington High School. She was a bright student, but did not want to go to college because she would have to go to classes a night. After graduation, Hannah worked as a billing clerk in a slipper manufacturer.
Living through the devastation of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust affected Hannah in many ways throughout her life, but especially when it came to raising her children. She explains, “I was stricter with them because I felt that the others were killed and we survived so [my children] shouldn’t be so silly. So I was stricter on my boys, which I regret now.”
“Hitler made me proud to be a Jew. Hitler made me Jewish.” Hannah was married in 1950 to an Austrian man that she met in America. She has two sons and three grandchildren. Her middle grandson was just accepted into the Israeli Army. She is tremendously proud ofhim.
Qhov kev sib tham no yog ua los ntawm Halley Goldberg ntawm tus Y nrog ib tug neeg nyob caring teg num thiab belongs rau lub YM&YWHA ntawm Washington Heights thiab Inwood. Siv cov khoom no tsis sau ntawv tso cai los ntawm ob lub Y thiab lub interviewee yog nruj me ntsis txwv. Xyuas kom paub ntxiv txog cov neeg uas nrog ib tug neeg nyob hauv Caring program ntawm no: http://ywashhts.org/partners-caring-0
Hebrew Tabernacle tus Armin thiab Estelle kub tis Gallerytxaus siab rau kev koom tes nrogntxawg&YWHA ntawm Washington Heights thiab Inwoodcaw koj tuaj caw pebKaum ib hlis/hlis ntuj nqeg, 2013 Exhibit“Muaj ib lub sij hawm ua tsov ua rog thiab tshaj ntawd: Portraits ntawm Spirited Holocaust Survivors” Nrog cov duab thiab sculpture los ntawm: YAEL BEN-ZION, PETER BULOW THIAB ROJ RODRIGUEZ. Conjunction nrog ib qhov kev pab tshwj xeeb tshwj xeeb hauv ncontawm qhov75Th Anniversary ntawm Kristallnacht-hmo ntawm Broken iavCov kev pab thiab artist qhib txais tos, Hnub Tsib, Kaum ib hlis 8, 2013 7:30 .m.
Ib tsab ntawv los ntawm cov Y : ” Xyoo lawm lub Washington Heights/Inwood Y lawm, thiab tseem yuav tau, Ib tug tsis tau rau cov neeg nrhiav qhov chaw nkaum, hwm thiab to taub. Muaj coob tus uas nkag mus rau hauv peb lub qhov rooj thiab koom rau hauv peb cov kev pab cuam tau nyob ntawm kev raug mob thiab kev ntxhov siab uas peb tsis tau pib xav txog tej yam. Ib txhia, leej twg yuav yog ib feem ntawm daim ntawv tso cai no, Ib tug zoo li no ntshai heev tuaj yuav tsum paub tias lub ntiaj teb no tsuas ua "The Holocaust" – Lub systematic tua neeg ntawm rau (6) lab (million) tus neeg Yudais ntawm cov teb chaws Europe.
Peb thaum lub Y nco ntsoov yav tas los, hwm cov uas nyob rau lub sij hawm ntawd, thiab tiv thaiv qhov tseeb rau yav tom ntej tiam tom ntej. Rau lub sake ntawm peb tus kheej thiab peb cov me nyuam, Peb yuav tsum kis tau cov dab neeg uas muaj tej cov evils ntawm tsov rog. Muaj cov tshooj lus yuav tsum kawm rau lub neej yav tom ntej. Cov kev sib tham no muab teev los ntawm Halley Goldberg, Ib tug "Partners in Caring" program supervisor. Qhov kev pab cuam no tseem ceeb heev yog tau los ntawm ib tug dav nyiaj pab los ntawm lub UJA-Federation ntawm New York, Tsim los txhim khu kev sib raug zoo nrog synagogues nyob Washington Heights thiab Inwood. “
Peb ob leeg kos duab exhibit nta portraits thiab sib tham ntawm survivors ntawm lub Holocaust, Hana Eisner, Charlie thiab Lilli Friedman, Pearl Rosenzveig, Fredy Seidel thiab Ruth Wertheimer, Cov Kwvernacle, Ib lub koom txoos Yudais uas muaj cov Yudai uas nyob thawj 100 xyoo khiav mus rau Tebchaws Meskas thiab muaj hmoo txaus los rau Tebchaws Asmesliskas, nkaus hauv lub caij 1930. Ntxiv rau peb yuav tau honor Holocaust survivor Gizelle Schwartz Bulow- Niam ntawm peb artist Peter Bulow thiab WWII survivor Yan Neznanskiy – leej txiv ntawm tus Y Chief Program Officer, Victoria Neznansky.
Ib tshwj xeeb Sabbath Service, hais lus, Nco txog lub 75th Anniversary ntawm Kristallnacht (Hmo ntuj tawg lawm iav) precedes cov lus qhib ntawm lub kub Gallery/Y exhibit:Cov kev pab pib sai sai thaum 7:30 pm. Caw tag nrho caw tuaj koom.
Rau gallery qhib teev los yog xav paub ntxiv thov hu rau synagogue ntawm212-568-8304 los yog saibhttp://www.hebrewtabernacle.orgArtist cov nqe lus: Yael Ben-Zionwww.yaelbenzion.comYael Ben-Zion yug hauv Minneapolis, MN thiab tsa ceg hauv ua Ixayees. Nws yog ib tug kawm tiav ntawm lub International Center of Photography General kev tshawb fawb Program. Ben-Zion yog tus neeg tau txais kev pab ntau yam nyiaj pab thiab txeeb, Feem ntau tsis ntev los no los ntawm lub Puffin Foundation thiab ntawm NoMAA, Thiab nws ua hauj lwm muaj tau exhibited nyob hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas thiab nyob teb chaws Europe. Nws tau luam tawm ob monographs ntawm nws ua hauj lwm. Nws nyob washington Heights nrog nws tus txiv, thiab lawv tus tub ntxaib.
Artist cov nqe lus: Peter Bulow: www.peterbulow.com
Kuv niam ua ib tug me nyuam, Yuav tsum tau nkaum thaum lub Holocaust. tau ntau xyoo, nws kev, Los yog dab tsi kuv imagined kom tau nws kev, Muaj ib tug cawv loj rau kuv. No cawv no reflected ob leeg nyob rau hauv kuv tus kheej thiab nyob rau hauv kuv lub neej artistic lub neej. Kuv yug hauv khej, Nyob ua ib tug me nyuam me nyob Berlin thiab emigrated rau Teb Chaws Asmeskas nrog kuv niam thiab txiv thaum muaj hnub nyoog 8. Kuv muaj ib masters hauv fine Arts hauv sculpture. Kuv kuj yog tus neeg tau txais kev pab ntawm ib qhov nyiaj pab uas yuav pub kuv ua ib tug xov tooj ntawm bronze busts ntawm Holocaust survivors. Thov qhia rau kuv paub yog hais tias koj xav ua ib feem ntawm qhov project no.
Artist cov nqe lus :Roj Rodriguez: www.rojrodriguez.com
Kuv lub cev ua hauj lwm reflects kuv lus los ntawm Houston, TX – qhov twg kuv yug thiab tsa ceg – rau New York – qhov twg, raug nws haiv neeg, Kev cai thiab socioeconomic ntau haiv neeg lus thiab nws pom rau cov neeg tsiv teb– Kuv nrhiav tau ib tug tshiaj respect rau sawv daws nyuas. Kuv twb apprenticed nrog cov kws yees duab zoo tsim los pab cov kws yees duab, Mus ncig teb chaws kim heev thiab collaborated nrog ntau sab saum toj professionals nyob hauv daim teb. Txij thaum lub ib hlis ntuj, 2006, Kuv hauj lwm raws li ib tug kws yees duab ywj siab kuj yog ib txoj kev noj rau koj tus kheej photography tej yaam num uas mam li tawm hauv kuv tus kheej to taub txog qhov uas peb muab lub ntiaj teb thiab ce peb creativity ua ib tug lej.
