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MY BROTHER
RUVEN
"June 1937. After he came to my
defense in a fight with my friend, my brother Ruven was afraid to
come home, knowing that my mother, who had heard about the fight,
had threatened to beat him. He spent the night in the horse barn. In
the morning, after my mother left, I fixed him a bowl of borscht and
crawled through the kitchen window to bring it to him. When I
returned to my house after the war, and found a Polish family living
there, I walked into the kitchen and stood in front of the window
with my eyes closed, wanting to relive the feeling of that time when
I sat close to my brother and watched him eat."
Embroidery and fabric collage, 1994.
26"W x 31"H. |
