Ofer Lifshitz

On the Other Side of the Page: Reusing Paper during the Holocaust

Yad Vashem's unrivalled archives house a host of documents created on paper materials whose original purpose was strikingly different: personal diaries written on office forms; prayer arrangements on delivery certificates; poems and pieces of prose on medical prescriptions; a Klezmer satire on the back of an SS office form. The desperate need to write and express oneself during the Holocaust produced interesting and even surprising combinations between the basic materials employed and the texts... Continue reading