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Chocolates from Tangier: A Holocaust replacement child\u2019s memoir of art and transformation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Jana Zimmer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A second-generation Holocaust survivor weaves together fragments of her family\u2019s history and witness testimony in narrative and collage, using her art as transformation and remembrance. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNever, never, never ask Daddy about her.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> For fifty years, Jana Zimmer obeyed her mother\u2019s directive, until her mother died, leaving behind a trove of family photos and documents, mostly in Czech, with just a few cryptic notes as explanation, for her only child to knit the family\u2019s past together. Late in her own life, Zimmer became a visual artist. The words and images in this book convey her journey to understand her parents and their experiences in the Holocaust, filtered through her own discoveries decades after returning to her birthplace, Prague, and to Terez\u00edn, where her family was first interned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibitions of Zimmer\u2019s artwork in 2007, both in Prague and at the Terez\u00edn Ghetto Museum, were mainly inspired by her half-sister, Ritta, who perished in Auschwitz before Zimmer was born, and by her father\u2019s grief over that loss. Ritta\u2019s drawings made in Terez\u00edn, now in the Prague Jewish Museum\u2019s collection of children\u2019s artwork from the ghetto, populate Zimmer\u2019s book as well as spare photographs and mementos that reflect Zimmer\u2019s internal world \u2014 that of a \u201cHolocaust replacement child.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Untitled by Jana Zimmer
digital collage; 2020. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, an exhibition in Germany allowed Zimmer to explore her relationship to her mother\u2019s experiences as survivor of Terez\u00edn, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen, and as a Jewish slave laborer in a Nazi aircraft factory in Freiberg, Saxony, in 1944. In both exhibits, and now, in putting together the visual story, their life stories, and her text, Zimmer\u2019s task has been the seemingly impossible \u2014 to remember where she had never been, for her parents, who had wanted only to forget, and to find her place between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world attacks us directly, tears us apart through the experience of the most incredible events, and assembles and reassembles us again. Collage is the most appropriate medium to illustrate this reality. <\/em>  \u2014J. Kol\u00e1\u0159 (Czech, 1914\u20132002)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT THE BOOK
Chocolates from Tangier<\/em>
by Jana Zimmer
9″x6″; 244 pages
paperback; fully illustrated in color
ISBN 978-1-954600-10-2
$29.95 USD\/$38.99 CAD\/\u00a321.99 GBP\/\u20ac26.99 EUR
Published by DoppelHouse Press<\/a>, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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