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Title
Past is Prologue: A Journey of Discovery – with Barbara Michelman
Contributor
Michelman, Barbara
Hertz, Deborah
Hillman, Susanne
Date Created and/or Issued
2018-10-10
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Holocaust Living History Workshop
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
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Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
Paneriai is the Lithuanian name for Ponar (Ponary in Polish), the site of one of the worst massacres of Jews during World War II. For Barbara Michelman Panieriai is a landscape of loss and silence – a silence exemplified by her father who was born there. Though he escaped the slaughter, he was nevertheless broken by its haunting dimensions. In her solo-exhibition Past is Prologue, a series of photo montages with text, Michelman takes a journey of discovery into her family’s Lithuanian past. The result is a fascinating palimpsest of images echoing with the voices of the vanished. Michelman studied art history in Florence, Italy and graduated with a BA in philosophy from UC Berkeley. She did post-graduate work in film at SFSU and in sociology and psychology at Humboldt State University. One of the first women in the Lighting Union in Hollywood, she began her career working in all the major film studios. A prolific photographer and digital artist, she resides in the Bay Area.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4373041d
Language
English
Subject
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Memory
Ponary massacre
Photography, Artistic
Panierai (Lithuania)
Lithuania
Eger, Edith Eva
Michelman, Barbara
Place
Panierai (Lithuania)
Lithuania

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