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Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel
laureate, and the Andrew W. Mellon
Professor in the Humanities at BU, talks
with Golda Tencer, founder of the Shalom
Foundation of Warsaw, at the September 13
Gala Opening of the exhibition And I Still
See Their Faces: The Vanished World of
Polish Jewry, at the BU Exhibition
Showroom, 808 Commonwealth Ave. In 1994,
Tencer recognized the need to find and
protect the few remaining pieces of
tangible evidence of the Jewish culture
that once existed in Poland. Feeling
certain that many Jews faced with
deportation to the ghettos and
concentration camps had entrusted family
photos to friends and neighbors, she
issued an appeal. The response was
overwhelming: more than 8,000 photos were
received. "Because of the Holocaust, my
family is now very small," said Tencer,
who addressed the event in Yiddish through
an interpreter. "This exhibition is the
photograph album of millions of Polish
Jews -- my large Jewish family." For more
information on the exhibition, see
calendar, page 7. Photo by Vernon
Doucette
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