Even Women of Holocaust Get Blurred

[Meshuga]

Oy vey!

Even Women of Holocaust Get Blurred

By Renee Ghert-Zand


The Sisterhood has covered Haredi exclusion of women from the Israeli public sphere for some time now. When it comes to the removal of women’s images from public view, we’ve seen the disappearance of women from advertisements; the photoshopping of female leaders like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton out of news photos; the blurring of women’s and girls’ faces on memorial notices and even the erasing of a pair of women’s shoes from an innocuous photo of a family’s shoe drawer.

But now this practice has reached a high — or, rather low — point with the blurring out of the face of a woman in a Holocaust-era photo. Ynet reported that the Haredi newspaper “Bakehillah” (In the community) censored the face of Matilda Goldfinger, the woman who appears to the left of the little boy wearing a yellow star with his hands raised in the iconic photo documenting the final liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1943, following the Jewish uprising there that began on the first night of Passover that year. Goldfinger’s daughter Henka (Hannah) was killed moments after the photograph was taken...

More at the link:
http://m.forward.com/blogs/sisterhood-blog/174090/even-women-of-holocaust-get-blurred/?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=jd.fo-other&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=general-general

[marybourg]

1. Oh. I was going to comment: "meshuganas" but you

beat me to the word.