Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn625852
• English
• 1997
• overall: Height: 33.250 inches (84.455 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Painting with collage elements of laughing Nazi soldiers cutting off a Jewish man’s beard and payah, painted by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein in 1997 from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. Forcibly removing beards and payot, Jewish cultural symbols, from men was a common method of persecution against Jews during the Holocaust. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occupied Vilna, and initiated measures targeting th...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn625853
• English
• 1997
• overall: Height: 33.375 inches (84.773 cm) | Width: 26.250 inches (66.675 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Painting with collage elements created by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein in 1997 from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. The crying woman is Yetta, Judith’s mother, who suffered through the Holocaust alongside her daughter and cried for the safety of her family. After liberation, she mourned the death of her husband and the rest of Europe’s Jewish population who were killed. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occu...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn625854
• English
• 1980
• overall: Height: 39.625 inches (100.648 cm) | Width: 27.500 inches (69.85 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Acrylic painting of a street and buildings during the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto in September, 1943, created by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occupied Vilna, and initiated measures targeting the Jewish population. Jewish property was vandalized and taken, men were abducted and conscripted into forced labor battalions, and the Jewish p...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn625855
• English
• 1996
• overall: Height: 23.125 inches (58.738 cm) | Width: 27.250 inches (69.215 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Mixed media painting of Jewish children forced to play behind the fence of the Vilna ghetto, created by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein in 1996 from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occupied Vilna, and initiated measures targeting the Jewish population. Jewish property was vandalized and taken, men were abducted and conscripted into forced labor battalions, and the Jewish popula...