Photo Exhibit: Sur-Vi-Vor

Daniel G. Weiss, Photographer

Dinah Kramer, Project Producer

Black and white photos. Downtrodden victims. These are the images professional photographer Daniel G. Weiss carried in his mind when he thought of the Holocaust. That was until he heard Irving Roth z”l, Holocaust survivor, first Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, Director of the Holocaust Resource Center (now the Irving Roth Holocaust Resource Center), address a group of students from the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore. Danny was so moved by the life force he saw radiating from Irving he immediately wanted to reach for his camera. Irving inspired Danny and today you are looking at the results.

These 18 local Holocaust survivors, who came from all over Europe, were children and young teens during the war. They went through a variety of experiences in order to survive the atrocities of the Holocaust.

What do you see?

We hope you see what we saw- their resilience and other characteristics that enabled these amazing human beings to survive and thrive. Their vibrancy, strength, sense of humor, and ability to overcome insurmountable odds shine forth. We hope you are inspired, like we were, by this visual testimony.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

-Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor.