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Survivor's art documents lives shattered
by the Holocaust.

KAREN SCHWARTZ
Special to the Jewish News

heaving in agony at reliving how
they died.
"I came back and decided I want-
ed to do a Holocaust series, and I
also decided I wanted to start out
with images of real people during
the Holocaust; I didn't want to
make people up."
Using archival photographs taken
by the Nazis as well as family pho-
tographs, Brysk started experiment-
ing with ways to depict the "haunt-
ing quality" she saw in the images
in her artwork.
"The Holocaust is such a massive
event — six million Jews," she said.

Ann Arbor
Iff iriam Brysk remem-
bers the day the
Germans shot 80 per-
cent of the Jews from
Lida, a ghetto in then eastern
Poland, and how her family was
spared.
They were selected to die, she
recalls, but saved at the last minute
because her father was a surgeon.
"They still needed his services at
the hospital, so we were spared and
we survived that
Photo by Karen Schwartz
day," she said.
Two years ago,
Brysk, an Ann
"In tk..e, pnfin.
Arbor artist,
returned to visit the
ghettos and concen-
tration camps of
Eastern Europe.
The trip compelled
her to begin work
on a series related
to the Holocaust,
titled "In a
Confined Silence,"
.14,rtts- k,
which will be show-
cased through April
30 at the Jewish -
Community Center
of Washtenaw
County's Amster
Miriam Brysk and Jennifer Perlove Siegel collaborated on a
Gallery.
Holocaust-related art exhibition at the Jewish Community
Brysk's mixed-
media photography Center of Washtenaw County.
was selected to be
the Bobbie and
Myron Levine JCC
"I wanted to zero in on individual
Cultural Arts Fund's third exhibi-
people and document their plight
tion. Exhibits sponsored by the
fund showcase informative and edu- because you can't deal with six mil-
lion, you can only deal with indi-
cational displays centered on Jewish
vidual people, and I wanted the pic-
themes.
tures to move the viewer to see
"I thought of what I had lived
them and their plight."
through and the loss of my family
Adding further power to the pres-
while I was there in Auschwitz and
entation was the way the images are
Treblinka, where my family per-
displayed. Aluminum hanging sys-
ished," Brysk said. "While I was
there, I was just choking up and
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