S. Dillon Ripley Center

The Ripley Center is a small museum located underground between the Sackler Gallery and the National Museum of African Art. It has room for three decent-sized exhibits.

I feel one exhibit will stick with me. In Fabric of Survival, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz tells her personal experience of the Holocaust through fabric art that portrays scenes from her life. It's a stark tale about Nazi brutality and her family's move to a concentration camp while she stayed behind and traveled from village to village hiding. I examined every scene and read every caption.

Obviously she survived and made it to America and in her old age made this art. I wonder what made her do it? Was it to capture a memory? A method of coping?

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