Portrait by refugee artist Yonia Fain [LCID: 20028kop]
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Portrait by refugee artist Yonia Fain

Portrait of Janek Goldstein, in pencil, by Yonia Fain. Goldstein, a friend of the artist in Shanghai, was the son of Bernard Goldstein, who was active in the Bundist underground of the Warsaw ghetto and participated in the 1943 uprising. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]

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Warsaw Warsaw ghetto uprising Shanghai art artists refugees
  • Yonia Fain
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections

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