Mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at The Vilna. Join us for an afternoon of film, photography, and much needed community conversation.
This program will begin with a curated tour with the artist of our temporary art exhibit entitled Looming in the Shadows of Lodz, followed by a powerful screening and discussion of the film, Who Will Write Our History?. This 40-minute documentary tells the story of a remarkable collection of artifacts that were hidden and preserved by prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto.
The event is co-sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and is offered in partnership with the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, Boston 3G, the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. We are also pleased to welcome members of the Armenian and Cambodian communities who will be joining us for this important community event.
Meet the Artist
Leslie Starobin is a Professor Emerita of Art at Framingham State University in Framingham, MA.
Starobin’s artwork is in the permanent collection of many American museums, including the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Jewish Museum, NY, NY; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY; The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at University of California at Berkeley, CA; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.
Starobin’s photographs and photomontages have been exhibited at numerous museums in the U.S. In 2012-13, she had a solo exhibit at the Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX.
Starobin received a 2023 Combined Jewish Philanthropies Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund for this exhibition project. In 2020, Starobin received a grant from the Framingham Cultural Council, a subsidiary of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, to support “Looming in the Shadows of Łódź.”
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