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A Rare Photo Reveals a Family’s Story: The Weilheimer Family Collection

Visual documentation of Jewish spiritual practice in the camps is rare. Curator Kyra Schuster’s pursuit of a photo of a prisoner at Gurs lighting Hannukah candles led her to a whole family’s collection of documents that is unique in many ways.