{"id":18,"date":"2007-02-02T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2007-02-02T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T03:45:56","slug":"news-new-york-jewish-week","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/news-new-york-jewish-week\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#8211; New York Jewish Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>New York Jewish Week<br \/>\nNew York and Environs<br \/>\nMarch 23, 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE PHOTOS THEY CARRIED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New Book Chronicles What Auschwitz Prisoners Brought<br \/>\nwith Them and How They Wanted to Be Remembered<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Sandee Brawarsky<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If memories form a circle around the heart, as S.Y. Agnon writes in &#8220;Betrothed.&#8221; Then photographs uphold that circle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of the people whose photographs appear in The Last Album\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 are smiling. Almost all look directly at the camera, with a certain confident, content and hopeful gaze. The book has the feel of someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family album \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the people almost look familiar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Last Album is a very different work than photo collections of pre-war Europe by noted photographers like Roman Vishniak or Alter Kacyzne\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.The power of the photographs in this new book has les to do with their sense of composition or artistic value than with the reason they were brought to Auschwitz in the first place: For the prisoners, these are the images of loved ones they wanted to remember as they were taken to an unknown destination and fate. The photos were the embracing circles around their hearts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In talking with Weiss about her project, her passion for the photos and the stories behind them seems boundless. She remarks that some of the survivors told her of events they hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spoken of before. &#8220;I am a shaliach, an emissary, a messenger for the photographs\u00e2\u20ac\u201dno more, no less,&#8221; she writes. Some of the survivors might use another word for messenger and call her an angel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Jewish Week New York and Environs March 23, 2001 THE PHOTOS THEY CARRIED New Book Chronicles What Auschwitz Prisoners Brought with Them and How They Wanted to Be Remembered by Sandee Brawarsky &#8220;If memories form a circle around the heart, as S.Y. Agnon writes in &#8220;Betrothed.&#8221; Then photographs uphold that circle.&#8221; &#8220;Many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}