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Anna Walinska was a bold artist ahead of her time. Her niece, Rosina Rubin, writes at Lilith Online: "When she was in her final days, my aunt told me that she was not afraid to die but that she needed my help."
Find out what happened next at the 🔗 in our bio.
On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. We also honor the reverberations of this trauma, passed down from generation to generation.
In “My View from the 4th Generation,” Anna Štičková reflects on how, when she was growing up in a secular Czech Jewish family, her consciousness of being Jewish came through two people: her “Uncle” Hary, who visited her family from Holland and had a strange number tattooed on his arm, and her grandmother’s stories about Evicka, one of the people who did not come back from the war. Eva was six when she had to go to the gas chamber.
Read it now in Lilith’s latest issue — 🔗 in bio.
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) begins tonight. Here is what psychologist and rabbi Susan Schnur saw and heard—and understood—when in 1991 she reported for Lilith on the first-ever gathering of Jews who were hidden as children during the Holocaust. Her rendering of their excruciating experience of concealing or never knowing one`s origin or identity was so scrupulously accurate, and her conclusions so profound, that at the 25th anniversary gathering of this group they invited Susan Schnur to read her report aloud.
35 years later, the questions these Holocaust survivors raise about identity and safety feel close and urgent. Read the report now — 🔗 in bio.
Ahhhh the ‘90s 💿🦋🌈
Did you know all of Lilith’s issues from the past 50 years are available online? 🔗 in bio!
💛 Shabbat Shalom 💛
Art: "Fractured Woman, 1982" by Anna Walinska
