[02/36] Swimming in the River | Video Tour | The Art of Holocaust Survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz

The 2nd image in the timeline of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz’s fabric artworks, created by Esther in 1978. Narrated by her daughter Bernice Steinhardt.

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Full transcript of voiceover:
"After Esther completed the picture of her childhood home, she created a companion piece to give to my sister Helene. Here, she focuses on the children of her family, again on a beautiful summer day. The Tucin river runs across the field where she and her brother swim, Esther’s braids bobbing on the surface. Her sisters Mania and Leah are tending the geese, and Chana stands at the river’s edge. The farmers are coming in from the fields. The world as Esther remembers it is a beautiful place.

"Sixty years later, when Esther returned to Mniszek to see her childhood home, she was devastated to find that the Tucin River was reduced to an algae-covered pond. She had already grieved for the people she had lost in the war, but she hadn’t imagined that a river could disappear."

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