JULIUS EISENSTEIN , 2005
40 x 30 x 4 in (h x w x d)
Watercolor

Julius Eisenstein: " Hate and prejudice against each other is the worst thing. People should teach their children to accept anyone as she or he is. We are all born the same, with no label, and that is the way we should live our life. The ten commandments say: Do not envy your neighbor" I was one of five children born to my family in Tomaszow-Maz, Poland. My father owned a bakery. I survived the Holocaust in Dachau with my brother. I chose to place in this portrait a photograph of the liberation of the camp by American soldiers. This photograph has been seen in many documentaries including Life magazine. I tried to find the liberator soldier next to me several years later by using the photograph. My quest was rewarded when I was reunited 48 years later with soldier Joseph Frolio. Frolio and I have often taught about the Holocaust together. Frolio is no longer living but I have fond memories of him. I met my wife, a former Auschwitz survivor, in Munich two years after the liberation. We came to the U.S., and I opened a successful bakery. It is “beschert” that I am alive and survived. I feel that parents teach hate. Education is a way of enlightenment–that one can understand that there is something other than hate. For the last fifteen years I have been lecturing in high schools and colleges. I tell them my story of the Holocaust and through my story, try to teach tolerance.

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