KELLNER TATANA Fifty Years of Silence Eva Kellners Story Eu

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KELLNER, TATANA. Fifty Years of Silence: Eva Kellner's Story * Eugene Kellner's Story. Handwritten Czech text and its English translation printed over photographic images by Hnizdo from concentration cameos. Interleaved with transparent pages on which appear the original manuscript and family photographs. Folio, silk-screened pages on handmade paper; spiral bound; each housed in wooden box measuring 14x22 inches. Rosendale, NY: Women's Studio Workshop, 1992

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number 35 of only 50 copies, each volume signed by kellner. The spiral bound die-cut pages fall around flesh-colored paper casts of each parent's forearm tatooed with its camp number; the wooden box top slides open to reveal the book and sculpture. [This volume] "preserve[s] my parents' memories of internment in several concentration and extermination camps during World War II."