For I See Old Things Happening Again: Jill Freedman’s “Missing Generations” Presentation by Susan Chevlowe

When the documentary and street photographer Jill Freedman went to Poland in April 1993, on the occasion of the 50^thanniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, she wrote that she made the journey as a pilgrim “to mourn the dead, to honor them,” along with the “survivors, their children, old soldiers and witnesses.” She returned to the sites of destruction again the next year after receiving a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation (APF), which supports the work of photojournalists.

Susan Chevlowe, PhD, will discuss the series of photographs that resulted from these two trips, including to additional sites in Hungary and the Czechia, and the book that Freedman had planned but that was left unrealized at the time of her death. Her presentation will be followed by a conversation with family member Wendy Wernick.

Susan Chevlowe is Chief Curator and Museum Director of Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, in the Bronx where she has organized solo shows featuring the work of Micaela Amato, Leonard Freed, Jill Freedman, Jonathan Hammer, Robert Katz, Richard McBee, Jill Nathanson, Archie Rand, and many others, as well as group exhibitions. She is a former adjunct assistant professor in the Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she also served as co-chair of the Visual Arts Committee of the Arts Advisory Board. Prior to coming to the Derfner, Dr. Chevlowe was an associate curator at the Jewish Museum, New York. Dr. Chevlowe received her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a member of the Jewish Art Salon advisory board and lectures and writes about Jewish art and visual culture.

Wendy Wernick is Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Healthcare certified. She completed Bachelors in Health Service Administration and is a registered wound ostomy continence nurse working clinical solution specialist for northeast at convaTEc. Wendy Wernick is also a distant relative of Jill Freedman and is, with her sisters Susan Hecht and Nancy Sklar, the custodian of the Jill Freedman Family Estate.

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