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Oaks Lane Reform Synagogue

To Life! From Memory to Canvas: Celebrating the Life and Work of Stanislaw Brunstein

Look back at a world of pre-war, Eastern European shtetls before they were annihilated in the Holocaust. Polish Jewish artist Stanislaw Brunstein not only threw a spotlight on the homes and businesses, but the people that lived and worked in them, capturing rabbis to beetroot sellers, weddings to bereavements. His canvases allow the legacies to live on. Brunstein himself managed to escape Warsaw and deportation to Treblinka extermination camp, but was arrested after crossing the border into Russia and imprisoned in a Siberian labour camp. After release, he eventually travelled to London, where he became a stage designer for the Yiddish Theatre.

18 November – 8 December

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