Holocaust Books.

The Holocaust project to which Tami Rae Weiss has been most devoted are the Holocaust books which she has created in collaboration with Eva Schloss to help preserve the memory of Eva’s brother and father, Heinz and Erich Geiringer, through the artwork they created while hiding from the Nazis.

Heinz and Erich Geiringer did not survive the Holocaust. Remarkably, their paintings did. Following the war, Eva Geiringer (now Schloss) received the tragic news that her beloved brother and father had perished. Months later, she recalled a conversation with her brother from the cattle car train ride to Auschwitz, when Heinz told Eva about the paintings he and his father had made in hiding. Eva and her mother returned to Heinz and Erich’s hiding place in an old farmhouse attic. Remarkably, the paintings (and drawings and poems) were there- just as Heinz had told Eva- hidden underneath the floorboards.

Heinz and Erich Geiringer were two people out of eleven million murdered in the Holocaust. They had so much talent, wisdom, and love to share with the world but their lives were tragically cut short. Looking at Heinz and Erich’s art is a way to honor their memory- and to memorialize the millions of Jews who had names, stories, and talents that the world will never know.

Book: Heinz & Erich Geiringer: Paintings Created in Hiding During the Holocaust
by Tami Rae Weiss, PhD

(Above) Scroll through the page layouts of Weiss’s book, Heinz & Erich Geiringer: Paintings Created in Hiding during the Holocaust. Some page layouts have been omitted from this preview.

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