Esther Nisenthal Krinitz was 12 in 1939 when the Nazis came to her Polish village. She remembers every detail through a series of exquisitely embroidered fabric collages. Her art is an eyewitness account of tragedy and healing.


Underwritten by the William & Sheila Konar Foundation, with additional support from Joan Feinbloom, the Gallery Council of the Memorial Art Gallery, Mona Friedman Kolko and Mark Kolko, Hillel Community Day School, Hillel at the University of Rochester, the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, Jewish Senior Life, the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester, Pamela Miller Ness and Paul Marc Ness, and an anonymous donor in honor of Hillel at the University of Rochester.

Funding was also provided by the Ames Amzalak Memorial Trust, Rina & Danny Chessin and family, Daphne Futerman & Ira Jevotovsky and family, Peggy & Eli Futerman and family, Rubens Family Foundation, Marty and Vanessa Friedman, Tracie and Abe Glazer, Jill Friedman Rosen and Brian Rosen, Simon & Josephine Braitman Family Supporting Foundation, Essie Germanow, Robin and Michael Weintraub, Gradinger Family Fund, the Families of Laurence and Karen Kessler and Dennis Kessler and Andrea Miller, Dr. Ronald and Trudie Kirshner, Bud and Joan Rusitzky, Marcia Stern, Walsh Duffield, John and Jane August, Marianne & Herb Friedman, Jed Kolko and Eric Rice, and Danielle Kolko Henshaw and Larry Henshaw.