“Warsaw 1943: These I Remember, and my Soul Melts with Sorrow.” Designed by Ben Shahn.

(HOLOCAUST).

American, 1963

Seriagraph in color, with Shahn’s orange Hebrew letter symbol

The raw emotion of the imagery reflects Shahn’s selected liturgical text, an excerpt from the portion of the Ten Martyrs recited on Yom Kippur and Tisha B’av: “…For strangers have devoured us like unturned cakes, for in the days of the tyrant there was no reprieve for the martyrs murdered by the government.” Commemorates the 20th anniversary of the destruction of Jewish Warsaw.