Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust

The tiniest detail, one that would seem perfectly innocuous in another context, can in this exhibit bring to bear the full horror of the Holocaust. Take, for example, a picture of some children on an outing. In the front row, a girl called Celina Cedarbaum appears to be caught in a merry moment, turning her head to laugh with a friend. In fact, the five-year-old had been trained to obscure her face whenever confronted by a camera—someone, out of kindness, had made this child understand that she would die if she were identified in a photograph. Life in Shadows is made up of such details: tiny toy soldiers stored in a pillbox, a drawing of a farmer, diary pages, and other artifacts from the few thousand Jewish children who went into hiding in their attempts, which were not always successful, to elude the Nazis. 651-296-6126; www.minnesotahistorycenter.org