Letters to Sala Exhibit

"Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps" is a striking exhibition reproducing the letters, postcards, photographs, and personal documents that Sala Garncarz managed to save during five brutal years in Nazi work camps during World War II. Curated by Jill Vexler and co-sponsored by The Weinberg Library, the Holocaust Education Resource Center, and the Scranton Area Foundation, this unique exhibition will be on view at the Heritage Room at the University of Scranton from September 1 through October 28, 2008. Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library & Information Fluency, noted, "This traveling exhibition continues our commitment to commemorating the Holocaust through special programming in conjunction with the Holocaust Education Resource Center."

 

A reception, featuring a talk by Sala's daughter, Ann Kirschner, will be held on Sunday, September 14 from 1-4 p.m. Kirschner is the author of Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story, which tells the story of her mother's World War II experience.

 

This traveling exhibition was inspired by "Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps," presented at The New York Public Library from March 7 to June 17, 2006. Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Righteous Persons Foundation, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Berg Foundation, Trudy and Robert Gottesman, the French Children of the Holocaust Foundation and Nancy Schwartz Sternoff, Dobkin Family Foundation. Unless otherwise indicated, the letters, photographs, and documents in the exhibition are drawn from the Sala Garncarz Kirschner Collection, donated by the Kirschner family in April 2005, to the Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library. Traveling Exhibition Curator: Jill Vexler, Ph.D. Traveling Exhibition Design: Monk Design, New York