When one researches the Holocaust, they are often overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of this tragedy. Numbers in the millions and low survival percentages show people just how devastating this time period was to the Jewish community. What the numbers do not show, however, is exactly how devastating the Holocaust was to each individual person. The way the lives of innocent people were forever altered is something that is hard to draw from a statistic. The victims of the Holocaust and their suffering is personalized through the “Tower of Faces.” The “Tower of Faces” is a collection of roughly one thousand photographs, most of which were taken by Yitzhak Uri Katz, Alte Katz, Ben-Zion Szrejder, and Rephael Lejbowicz. The photos in this exhibit were collected from more than one hundred families by Dr. Yaffa Eliach,
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The people were religious, family oriented, and generally financially stable. Later on, however, they were discriminated against and dehumanized, and in 1941, German troops entered their town. It did not take long for the men of Eishishok to be called upon to work as laborers for the Germans. On the eve of the Jewish New Year in September 1941, the community was ordered to surrender all its valuables. The next morning all Jews were ordered to assemble in the main synagogue and its two houses of study. Jews were brought to Eishishok from the towns of Valkininkas and Salcininkai to be victimized in the same way. For the next two days, these people were held in the buildings without any food or water. On the third day, all of the men were shot and killed at the cemetery that belonged to the synagogue. On the fourth day, the women and children were taken out of the buildings and shot close to the neighboring Christian cemetery. Of the thousands of Jews condemned to their death in Eishishok, only twenty nine were fortunate enough to
The people were religious, family oriented, and generally financially stable. Later on, however, they were discriminated against and dehumanized, and in 1941, German troops entered their town. It did not take long for the men of Eishishok to be called upon to work as laborers for the Germans. On the eve of the Jewish New Year in September 1941, the community was ordered to surrender all its valuables. The next morning all Jews were ordered to assemble in the main synagogue and its two houses of study. Jews were brought to Eishishok from the towns of Valkininkas and Salcininkai to be victimized in the same way. For the next two days, these people were held in the buildings without any food or water. On the third day, all of the men were shot and killed at the cemetery that belonged to the synagogue. On the fourth day, the women and children were taken out of the buildings and shot close to the neighboring Christian cemetery. Of the thousands of Jews condemned to their death in Eishishok, only twenty nine were fortunate enough to