Meanwhile, his parents sent him desperate letters. He was refused asylum by Australia, New Zealand and Palestine until 1939 when he found American Jews willing to sponsor him. But his trip was arduous, taking him through Portugal and then to Cuba. (His siblings escaped later.)īenjamin's parents hoped that with his law degree, he could arrange for them to leave the country. Beile secured him a passport stamped with a red J for Jews - likely a counterfeit - and he left for Holland. He told Benjamin he'd release him if he left the country within 48 hours. For unclear reasons - perhaps because he was a practicing Jewish lawyer, perhaps just because he was Jewish - he was arrested by the Germans two years later.Ī neighbor happened to be a guard at the prison. She was known for her non-alcoholic wine, crushing the grapes herself every Friday for the Sabbath.įrostig's father, Benjamin Wolf, earned a doctorate in law and economics in 1936 from the University of Vienna. Moses was a salesman, and Beile, a homemaker who raised three children, took care of her paralyzed mother and kept the home observant. Frostig's project is part of this critical effort." The Grandparentsīeile Samuely and Moses Frostig lived in Vienna when the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938. "It is more important than ever that we create new forms of Holocaust remembrance, not dependent upon survivors and their testimony. Braun Professor of American Jewish History. "In a few years, the last Holocaust survivors will pass from the scene," said Sarna, University Professor and the Joseph H. The campus digital multimedia center, the MakerLab, is helping to design exhibits for a website that will offer information on the camp and a virtual tour. Apsell '69, researcher Evan Robins '20 and former director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's Project on Families, Children and the Holocaust Joanna Beata Michlic are all members of the project team. Historian Jonathan Sarna '75, MA'75, sits on the board professor Laura Jockusch, Holocaust education specialist Cheyenne A. Numerous Brandeis faculty and alumni are involved in the effort, which Frostig calls Locker of Memory.
In this way, Frostig said, a symbol of life will lie above a place of mass death. The canopy, placed above a mass grave at the site, will blow with the wind, suggesting breath. Slated for completion in 2024, it will consist of a monument and a small landscaped garden beneath a canopy. "I felt like I'd lost a part of my family's history."įrostig, who is also a professor at Lesley University, is now on a quest to ensure we never forget what happened at Jungfernhof.Ī multimedia artist, she has designed a memorial to the Jews killed there. "I had this feeling of being robbed," says Frostig. Occasionally, a bicyclist or rollerblader buzzed by. The words "Mazjumpravas muiža ," the park's name, were set against a cloudy blue sky filled with geese and a butterfly.įrostig, an affiliated scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, saw a few people walking the promenade beside the gently flowing Daugava River. She drove a few miles outside the capital city Riga to the site of the Jungfernhof concentration camp, where nearly 4,000 Jews were deported between 19.Ī banner out front welcomed visitors. In early 2019, Karen Frostig traveled to Latvia to visit the place where the Nazis had murdered her grandparents.
Part of Frostig's proposed art installation: Iconic images connected to Jungfernhof will be projected onto the wall of the Šķirotava train station, where the passengers disembarked before being taken to the camp.
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