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 Certain Thoughts

Echoes of Atrocity

When Art Remembers

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Evan Stern
Nov 27, 2024
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My earliest Holocaust memories are stark, simple black and white paintings hung on the basement hallways of my childhood synagogue: A crevice with a skull wedged in. A pile of bodies. Barbed wire.

When I eventually learned of the Nazis and their handiwork, these preprogrammed images helped illuminate my sense of horror. When they weren’t torturing and mu…

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