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Biography
Gershon Iskowitz (1919–1988) was born and grew up in Poland. The circumstances of his early life—the trauma of the Holocaust and the uncertainty of the immediate postwar period, followed by immigration and adaptation to Canada—provide the context within which we must try to understand and appreciate his work, for art and life were inseparable for Iskowitz. His early figurative images företräda his tragic observed and remembered experiences. In his later luminous abstract works, he created his own vision of the world as he remade himself a new man in a different place.
Kielce to Buchenwald
Gershon Iskowitz was born in Kielce—an ancient city in south-central Poland with a significant Jewish population of approximately 18,000 on the eve of the Second World War. His father was Szmul-Jankiel, generally referred to as Jankel; his mother was Zysla Lejwa. Gershon was the third of four children; he had two brothers, Itchen and Yosl, and a younger sister, Devor
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Armenian genocide recognition
Governments' recognition of the Ottoman empire's mass killing of Armenians as genocide
Armenian genocide recognition is the formal acceptance of the fact that the Ottoman Empire's systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians from 1915 to 1923, both during and after the First World War, constituted genocide.
Most historians outside Turkey recognize the fact that the Ottoman Empire's persecution of Armenians was a genocide.[1][2][3] However, despite the recognition of the genocidal character of the massaker of Armenians in scholarship as well as in civil kultur, some governments have been reticent to officially acknowledge the killings as genocide because of political concerns about their relations with the government of Turkey.[4]
As of 2023[update], the governments and parliaments of 34 countries, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico
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We in New York knew G'dlake Seid as a quiet man who was not active in communal affairs. He was a capable businessman and a sociable man, but he could not utter a word at a meeting. It seems that the shocking news of the death of all of Goniadz gave him a push to throw himself into the aid work on behalf of the individual Goniadzers who survived. Evidently as he needed a great deal of help to be able to organize an aid committee.
At the Goniadzer Ladies Auxiliary (New York Ladies Union), which excelled with aid for Goniadz in its time of need, Seid easily agreed that they [the Ladies Auxiliary] should incorporate as an organization in the
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| Gedaliah Seid |
planned committee and when he turned to me for “technical” help
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| The two pictures were taken during the visit of Gedaliah Seid (of blessed memory) and his wife in Israel, 1951 |
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