VU commemorates Holocaust Awareness Week
VALPARAISO: ‘Das Getto’ paintings at VU depict horrific scenes from Warsaw ghetto
BY ELIZABETH HOLMES
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This story ran on nwitimes.com on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 12:28 AM CDT
VALPARAISO | A startling series of grim oil paintings will greet Valparaiso University students as they breeze between the Christopher Center and the student union this week.
Hung unassumingly in the tucked-away hallway, a series called “Das Getto” by Helen Weisman is part of the university’s Holocaust Awareness Week.
The work, based on a book of photography of the same name, shows life in the Warsaw ghetto and grows darker as the collection progresses. Weisman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, depicts scenes…MORE.
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