The Virginia Holocaust Museum will host the “Portraits of Zinkov,” an exhibition by Alan Shulman from April 1st to May 31st, 2010.
The exhibition focuses on a series of portraits created from the “Zinkover Memorial Book.” A memorial book is a collection of stories, anecdotes, photographs and any other preserved information related to the subject.
Memorial books, like the Zinkov one, were first created after World War II by Jewish societies in the U.S. and Israel, in order to remember the victims of the Nazis. The village of Zinkov, in particular, resonated with Mr. Shulman because it was home to many of his maternal ancestors.
“I wanted to honor them in a way that ‘important’ people might be honored with portraits,” said Shulman. “In this way, I felt I was coming to know them, albeit it in a circumscribed way, and paying them a kind of respect that perhaps was not theirs in life.”
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