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exhibitions

language of emigration

Alex Zachary, New York, exhibition 2010

 

Mary Silverman, Pictures of Emigration / Bider der Emigration

 

Mary Silverman, Bider der Emigration, Mary Silverman

born in Vienna / geboren 1925 in Wien, Emigration 1938 Tschechien, London, 1940 New York

interview: 78 min, 7/9/2008 - 15 images, 24 x 32 inches (51 x 82 cm)

see video streaming here

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60 min long view from the window of Silverman's early childhood home in Vienna which happens to be today the hotel Regina - where I stayed for one night.

 

PS:

SOME OF THE WORKS WAS CONFISCATED BY HITLER (Rubens) AND WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PART OF HIS LINZ 'FUEHRER MUSUEM. IT WAS FEATURED IN THE BOOK ABOUT HITLERS MUSEUMS-PLANS. MOST OF THE WORKS WAS RESTITUTED TO THE FAMILY BY AUSTRIA.

below: see property of the family on the auction block.

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see number: 212: porcelan set (seen in video) was being auctioned off in Vienna in 1939 by the Nazi with the help of a famous still existing auction house