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3101 Clifton Avenue,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
513-487-3055
fax: 513-221-1842
chhe@huc.edu
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Her Story Must
Be Told:
Women's Voices from the Holocaust
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exhibit uniquely presents the memories, photos, and stories
of 15 women survivors living in the greater Cincinnati area.
They are from a dozen countries, reflecting a variety of survivor
experiences during the Holocaust. Through heading each panel
with a human characteristic such as patience, courage, responsibility,
and perseverance exhibited by the individual woman, the viewer
gains an appreciation of the way these women survived: fighting
in the resistance, living in hiding or with false identity,
and enduring concentration camps. Collectively the stories of
sisters, daughters, mothers, wives and friends are a celebration
of women’s strength and valor. By the final panel, viewers
are challenged to transform their own impressions into positive
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Each woman's
story is presented as one of sixteen pairs of thirty by twenty-four
inch panels (one is the title board) and twenty-four by eighteen
inch panels: a portrait framed by her story and a scrapbook
montage panel. Her Story features a 'ruby'
beads necklace, strung together as the viewer walks through
the stories, collecting the virtues that aided in each woman's
survival. Each successive story displays one additional bead,
until the necklace is complete. Collectively Her Story
inspires us with acts of love, resilience, and valor of women
engulfed by the Holocaust.
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