Portrait by refugee artist Yonia Fain [LCID: 2002a57z]
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Portrait by refugee artist Yonia Fain

Portrait of Semek Kushner, in pencil, by Yonia Fain. Kushner's father and brother were killed in Shanghai near the end of the war during an American air raid on Hongkew. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]

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Shanghai China refugees art artists
  • Yonia Fain
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections

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