REVIEW: Still Life in Lodz [2019]

It was the end of our life in Poland. As a young girl growing up in Lodz, Poland after World War II, the framed still life painting that hung above Lilka Elbaum‘s family couch became synonymous with home. That’s what she saw when she awoke and that’s what she remembers most when looking back at the nineteen years she spent in that apartment building before immigrating to North America—and it wasn’t even theirs. This truth shouldn’t be surprising when you consider that city and that era. All the furniture in…

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