am a Holocaust survivor, born in Vilno (Vilna), Poland. In 1941, under the Nazi
occupation, most Jews of Vilno were placed in the ghetto. About 50,000 Jews of
the city were led to Ponar, a place in the forest outside Vilno, shot to death
an thrown into pits. Most of my family are buried there. At the liquidation of
the ghetto in 1943, I was shipped with my mother to concentration camps, Riga
in Latvia, Stutthof and later Torun, Poland. There, I went through the tunnel
of death, but survived by many miracles. My father never returned, my mother and
brother survived. I am able to turn my experiences of horror and degradation into
artworks. The last journey is from my memories of the Stutthof concentration camp.
I saw these wagons with dead bodies taken tot he crematorium.
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