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Nazi's rip babies from their mothers' arms. Jews dig their own graves, then walk
on a small wooden plank, where they aret shotfall into the grave they have dug.
A soldier yells at cowering Jewish children.
The scenes are in drawings b one by one and fall into the grave they have
dug. A soldier yells at cowering Jewish children.
The scenes are in drawings by Ella
Liebermann, shown above right in a photograph taken when she was released in
1945, at age 17, from a German concentration camp. She survived the Holocaust by
painting portraits for the Germans. The day the war ended, she began documenting,
in detail, the horrors she had seen.
The result was 93 black and white drawings depicting countless torturous
deaths and humiliations of Jewish people.
Her exhibit, "On the edge of the Abyss," and photographer Cy Lehrer's
exhibit, "Places of Ha'Shoah," (the Holocaust) were displayed last fall at the
Appleton Museum in Ocala. Both collections have traveled the world to teach
children about the Holocaust, and to remind older people of its horror.
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