I am pleased to announce the collage “Survival Struggle” has been published in Burkard Gassenbauer’s book entitled Plotzlich abgeholt Die Geschichte der judischen Gemeinde Konigheim und ihr grausames Ende im Dritten Reich. In English: Suddenly Picked Up, The History of the Jewish Community in Konigheim (Germany) and It’s Cruel End in the Third Reich.

The book was published as a companion piece for the commemoration ceremony about the small Jewish community that lived in Konigheim and was all but lost during the years leading up to and during the Third Reich. The commemoration in November 2018, coincided with the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht which took place November 9-10, 1938. During Kristallnacht, Nazis throughout Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed Jews. This book was a way to honor those who had lived and been a part of the Konigheim community for hundreds of years prior to the Third Reich.

Many thanks to the town’s local historian Burkard Gassenbauer for his unending dedication and hard work uncovering what happened to the families that once lived there.

Survival Struggle was my senior thesis at University of the Arts, where I studied and received a BFA in Illustration. It has been exhibited in the National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia, PA, the William H.Ely Award Exhibit at UArts and other galleries in and around the Philadelphia area.