Ni apapo pẹlu wa “Awọn alabaṣepọ ni Itọju” eto ti agbateru nipasẹ awọn UJA-Federation of New York, Y yoo ṣe apejuwe awọn ifọrọwanilẹnuwo lati ọdọ awọn iyokù agbegbe mẹfa lati ni oye itan ti ẹni kọọkan daradara. Awọn ifọrọwanilẹnuwo wọnyi ni yoo ṣe afihan ni ibi iṣafihan agọ Heberu “Ni iriri Akoko Ogun ati Ni ikọja: Awọn aworan ti Awọn iyokù Bibajẹ Ẹmi”. Aworan naa yoo ṣii ni ọjọ Jimọ Oṣu kọkanla ọjọ 8th.
Ruth Wertheimer has been a member at the Y for over a decade. You can find Ruth at the Y for special events and programming, especially at Sunday concerts at the Center for Adults Living Well @ the Y.
Ruth Wertheimer(photography by Roj Rodriguez: www.rojrodriguez.com)
Ruth Wertheimer was born in Mannheim, Germany on June 6, 1931. At the age of one, her father died. Her mother raised her and her older brother in Mannheim, Germany. Ruth’s mother owned a thrift shop in town. Growing up in Mannheim was difficult. She remembers having very little schooling as a child. Ruth recalls experiencing anti-Semitism from a very young age. She recounts being called a dirty Jew as well as being beaten up in the streets. The anti-Semitism was so rampant that Ruth’s brother used to take her to their grandmother’s house. They would avoid main roads to prevent being beaten up. Their mother could not join them because she was busy working at the family’s store.
In Mannheim, Germany, Kristallnacht began on November 10, 1938. Ruth recalls the events of Kristallnacht, “we lived in this place with an Orthodox synagogue that had a rabbi and a cantor. There was an office there for social workers and a Jewish school. These buildings surrounded a schoolyard…It started at 6 in the morning, you heard the noise of the burning buildings…it was terrible. There was a lot of noise and I was scared.” Ruth’s synagogue, The Haupt synagogue, was destroyed that day.
Once the destruction was finished, Ruth remembers her family’s store being completely ruined. “We had a beautiful photograph of my brother in color and they took it and put it out in the street…and wrote underneath ‘dirty Jew.’ Dirty Jew! It was a beautiful picture.” After seeing the destruction, Ruth’s family decided that they should leave the building they were living in. Her grandmother was a diabetic and she used to receive her injections from nuns so the family decided that it would be best to seek refuge with the nuns. The entire way there, they were followed by teenagers who were calling them ‘dirty Jew’. Ruth was able to find protection with the nuns for a while. From there, she and her family left to stay with relatives.
Ninu 1940, Ruth’s brother celebrated his bar mitzvah in an Orthodox synagogue in Mannheim. Three weeks after this joyous occasion, she and her family were rounded up and brought to a camp called Camp Gurs in France. Ruth remembers “we had one hour to pack and we didn’t know where we were going. We were put in some kind of recreation hall overnight, I’m not sure anymore, and the next day we were put on a train and we did not know where we were going. I had a grand aunt that was there too and she was with us and she brought sugar cubes and lemon to eat. We had nothing to eat. Finally we arrived in the camp. It was horrible: you had mud up to your knees, you were in a barrack with 20 people maybe. Rat, mice, lice, you name it. You slept on the floor with straw.” After being in Camp Gurs for a year, someone from the organization OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) came to the camp. OSE is a French- Jewish organization that saved hundreds of refugee children during the Holocaust. The representatives from OSE asked the parents in the camp if they wanted to give up their children. Ruth recollects that her mother never wanted to give up any of her children, but with great difficulty, she did. Ruth was given up first. From Camp Gurs, Ruth was taken to Chabannes. After being in Chabannes for some time, Ruth remembers that it was not safe there anymore and some of the older children were taken to Auschwitz. After this, OSE felt that it would be best to move the children.
Ruth was placed with a Jewish family for four months. She was then moved to a gentile family. Ruth remembers, “…my name was not Ruth anymore. I was Renee…I wasn’t Jewish then.” In France, children went to school on Saturdays instead of Thursdays. Ruth went to school on Saturdays. One day at school, the police came and began to question Ruth, “I was always told to tell the truth. So I told the police everything.” She informed the family that she was staying with and that night, social workers from OSE came and took Ruth and placed her in a convent in 1943. She changed her name again to Renee Latty.
While hiding in the convent, Ruth remembers, “I did the sign of the cross with the left hand, you are supposed to do it with the right hand! Then they brought me to church and I didn’t know anything. Everyone was going into a booth so I went too. It was a confession booth. I didn’t know what that was…I didn’t know what to do…I became so Catholic, that you didn’t know that I was never not Catholic.” Ruth stayed in the convent for about a year until the war was liberated.
After the war was liberated, Ruth stayed at different OSE homes. For two years, Ruth did not know where her brother was. She and her brother finally reunited at one of the OSE homes. They then lived in Limoges, France and then near Paris before traveling to America together.
At the age of 15, Ruth, her brother, ati 72 other children traveled to America together on the children transport. They landed in America on September 7, 1946. The boat was overcrowded and many of the children were sea sick. When they arrived in New York, there was a strike at the pier and they could not dock. The OSE was able to arrange for a small boat to come and take the children ashore.
When Ruth first got to America, she lived with an aunt and uncle and says that it was very difficult for her. Shortly after, she moved to Queens with another relative. This relative had a daughter around the same age as Ruth. She remembers starting school and that her relative’s daughter went to a better school than she did. Ruth had a difficult time managing in school and her relatives told her that if she did not finish school, they would kick her out. Because she was having such difficulties in school, Ruth was kicked out in 1948.
Since June 1948, Ruth has lived in Washington Heights. She realized that she had to learn a trade in order to survive so she decided to go to beautician school. She attended the Wilfred Academy and fell in love with her courses. She went on to receive her beautician’s license. Hebrew Tabernacle was the first synagogue she joined since she came to America and she has been a member ever since. She has one son and two grandchildren who live in Wisconsin.
Ifọrọwanilẹnuwo yii ni a ṣe nipasẹ Halley Goldberg ti Y’s Partners ni ipilẹṣẹ Itọju ati pe o jẹ ti YM&YWHA ti Washington Heights ati Inwood. Lilo ohun elo yii laisi aṣẹ kikọ lati ọdọ Y ati ẹni ifọrọwanilẹnuwo jẹ eewọ patapata. Wa diẹ sii nipa Awọn alabaṣepọ ni eto Itọju Nibi: http://ywashhts.org/partners-caring-0
Heberu Tabernacle’s Armin ati Estelle Gold Wing Galleryni igberaga ajọṣepọ pẹlu awọnawon YM&YWHA ti Washington Heights ati Inwoodnkepe o lati waOṣu kọkanla / Oṣu kejila, 2013 Ifihan“Ni iriri Akoko Ogun ati Ni ikọja: Awọn aworan ti Awọn iyokù Bibajẹ Ẹmi” pẹlu awọn aworan ati awọn ere nipasẹ: YAEL BEN-SIONỌN, Peter BULOW ati ROJ RODRIGUEZ. Ni apapo pẹlu iṣẹ pataki ni irantiti awọn75th aseye ti Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken GlassAwọn iṣẹ ati Gbigba Ibẹrẹ Olorin, Ọjọ Ẹtì, Oṣu kọkanla ọjọ 8th, 2013 7:30 irọlẹ.
Alaye kan ti Y : ” Fun ewadun awọn Washington Heights/Inwood Y ti wa, ati ki o tẹsiwaju lati wa ni, ibi ààbò fún àwọn tí ń wá ibi ìsádi, ọwọ ati oye. Ọ̀pọ̀ àwọn tí wọ́n wọ ilẹ̀kùn wa tí wọ́n sì ń kópa nínú àwọn ìtòlẹ́sẹẹsẹ wa ti la àdánwò àti ìpọ́njú tí a kò lè fojú inú wò ó.. Fun diẹ ninu awọn, tani yoo jẹ apakan ti ifihan yii, Ọ̀kan lára irú ẹ̀rù bẹ́ẹ̀ ti wá di mímọ̀ fún ayé lásán bí “Ìpakúpa Rẹpẹtẹ” – ifinufindo ipaniyan ti mefa milionu awọn Ju ti Europe.
A ni Y ranti awọn ti o ti kọja, bu ọlá fún àwọn tí wọ́n wà láàyè tí wọ́n sì kú ní àkókò náà, kí o sì dáàbò bo òtítọ́ fún àwọn ìran tí ń bọ̀. Fun ara wa ati awọn ọmọ wa, a gbọdọ sọ awọn itan ti awọn ti o ti ni iriri ibi ti ogun. Awọn ẹkọ wa lati kọ fun ọjọ iwaju. Awọn ifọrọwanilẹnuwo naa jẹ akọsilẹ nipasẹ Halley Goldberg, olubẹwo eto “Awọn alabaṣiṣẹpọ ni Itọju”.. Eto pataki yii ṣee ṣe nipasẹ ẹbun oninurere lati ọdọ UJA-Federation ti New York, ti a ṣe lati jẹki awọn ibatan pẹlu awọn sinagogu ni Washington Heights ati Inwood. “
Afihan iṣẹ ọna apapọ wa ṣe ẹya awọn aworan ati awọn ifọrọwanilẹnuwo ti awọn iyokù ti Bibajẹ naa, Hannah Eisner, Charlie ati Lilli Friedman, Pearl Rosenzveig, Fredy Seidel ati Ruth Wertheimer, gbogbo wñn j¿ ara Àgñ Hébérù, a Juu ijọ ti ọpọlọpọ awọn German Ju sá awọn Nazis ati ki o orire to lati wa si America, darapọ mọ ni opin awọn ọdun 1930. Ni afikun a yoo tun bu ọla fun iyokù Bibajẹ Gizelle Schwartz Bulow- iya ti olorin wa Peter Bulow ati iyokù WWII Yan Neznanskiy - baba ti Y's Chief Program Officer, Victoria Neznansky.
A pataki Isinmi Service, pẹlu awọn agbohunsoke, ni iranti ti 75th aseye ti Kristallnacht (Night of Baje Gilasi) ṣaju ṣiṣi ti Gold Gallery/Y ifihan:Awọn iṣẹ bẹrẹ ni kiakia ni 7:30 irọlẹ. Gbogbo wa ni a pe lati wa.
Fun awọn wakati ṣiṣi gallery tabi fun alaye siwaju sii jọwọ pe sinagogu ni212-568-8304 tabi wohttp://www.hebrewtabernacle.orgGbólóhùn Olorin: Yael Ben-Sioniwww.yaelbenzion.comYael Ben-Zion ni a bi ni Minneapolis, MN ati dide ni Israeli. O jẹ ọmọ ile-iwe giga ti International Center of Photography's General Studies Program. Ben-Zion jẹ olugba ti ọpọlọpọ awọn ifunni ati awọn ẹbun, laipe lati Puffin Foundation ati lati NoMAA, ati iṣẹ rẹ ti ṣe afihan ni Amẹrika ati ni Yuroopu. O ti ṣe atẹjade awọn monograph meji ti iṣẹ rẹ. O ngbe ni Washington Heights pẹlu ọkọ rẹ, ati awọn ọmọkunrin ibeji wọn.
Gbólóhùn Olorin: Peter Bulow: www.peterbulow.com
Iya mi bi omo, ti wa ni ipamọ nigba Bibajẹ. Lori awọn ọdun, iriri rẹ, tabi ohun ti Mo ro pe o jẹ iriri rẹ, ti ni ipa nla lori mi. Ipa yii jẹ afihan mejeeji ninu ti ara ẹni ati ninu igbesi aye iṣẹ ọna mi. Ilu India ni won bi mi, gbé bi a ọmọ ọmọ ni Berlin ati ki o ṣilọ si awọn US pẹlu obi mi ni ọjọ ori 8. Mo ni Masters ni Fine Arts ni ere ere. Emi tun jẹ olugba ẹbun ti yoo gba mi laaye lati ṣe nọmba to lopin ti awọn igbamu idẹ ti awọn iyokù Bibajẹ. Jọwọ jẹ ki mi mọ ti o ba nifẹ lati jẹ apakan ti iṣẹ akanṣe yii.
Gbólóhùn Olorin :Roj Rodriguez: www.rojrodriguez.com
Ara iṣẹ mi ṣe afihan irin-ajo mi lati Houston, TX – ibi ti mo ti a bi ati ki o dide – to New York – ibi ti, fara si awọn oniwe-eya, oniruuru aṣa ati ọrọ-aje ati wiwo alailẹgbẹ rẹ lori awọn aṣikiri– Mo ti ri ibowo isọdọtun fun aṣa gbogbo eniyan. Mo ti kọ ẹkọ pẹlu awọn oluyaworan ti iṣeto daradara, rin kakiri agbaye lọpọlọpọ ati ifowosowopo pẹlu ọpọlọpọ awọn alamọdaju giga ni aaye naa. Lati Oṣu Kini, 2006, iṣẹ mi bi oluyaworan olominira ti di ilana ti gbigbe lori awọn iṣẹ akanṣe fọtoyiya ti ara ẹni ti o farahan lati oye ti ara mi ti ọna ti a pin agbaye ati ṣe adaṣe ẹda wa lapapọ.
