“Your number was your name.” -Jack Feldman, Holocaust survivor The number tattooed on the arm of a Holocaust survivor is an indelible reminder of the horrors inflicted on individuals imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. It is also a daily reminder of survival and one’s ability to endure the greatest of evils. Tattooing was implemented at Auschwitz in 1941 as a mechanism for identifying prisoners, ultimately striping people of their last remaining sense of identity. View the complete film
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“Your number was your name.” -Jack Feldman, Holocaust survivor The number tattooed on the arm of a Holocaust survivor is an indelible reminder of the horrors inflicted on individuals imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. It is also a daily reminder of survival and one’s ability to endure the greatest of evils. Tattooing was implemented at Auschwitz in 1941 as a mechanism for identifying prisoners, ultimately striping people of their last remaining sense of identity. View the complete film
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This is the Holocaust Survivor, who as a boy, was filmed by the Red Army showing the number tattooed on his arm, and he was only four years old #Auschwitz80 | Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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When 10-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather Jack about the number tattooed on his arm, he sparks an intimate conversation between generations. The Museum is thrilled to present a pre-screening of the HBO Documentary Films' “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm,” directed and produced by Emmy® winner Amy Schatz on Sunday, January 21 at 6:30pm. The film follows Jack’s life from carefree memories of childhood in Poland, to the loss of his family, surviving Auschwitz, and building a
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When 10-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather Jack about the number tattooed on his arm, he sparks an intimate conversation between generations. The Museum is thrilled to present a pre-screening of the HBO Documentary Films' “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm,” directed and produced by Emmy® winner Amy Schatz on Sunday, January 21 at 6:30pm. The film follows Jack’s life from carefree memories of childhood in Poland, to the loss of his family, surviving Auschwitz, and building a
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Twenty-four of artist Jeff Scher’s watercolor paintings from the HBO documentary “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm” are now on view in the Museum’s Overlook gallery alongside 400 still images from the film. Scher uses a form of graphic, live animation called rotoscope that parallels a flipbook style. By tracing over historical footage frame-by-frame to produce vibrant and visually enticing content, Scher’s work enables the film to resonate with an all-ages audience. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2m
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