Roman Vishniac photographed the world of the Jews of Eastern Europe in the years right before the Holocaust - a world now vanished. Elie Wiesel called him "a poet of memory." His photographs have given me the chance to become a sculptor of memory. This sculpture brings back to life these two Jews from Vishniac’s photographs - one from the village of Vrchni Apsa in Carpathian Ruthenia, and the other from Slonim in Byelorussia.
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