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On the occasion of its reopening following the completion of accessibility improvements, the Kebbel Villa presents the exhibition NEIN! Boris Lurie and NO!art.
Born in Leningrad in 1924, Boris Lurie (1924–2008) was the youngest child of the Jewish businessman Ilja Lurie and his wife Schaina, a dentist. He grew up in Riga, Latvia. Following the German occupation in 1941, the family was confined to the Riga Ghetto. On December 8, 1941, Lurie’s mother, grandmother, younger sister, and childhood sweetheart were murdered during the Rumbula massacre, in which SS units and their collaborators killed approximately 25,000 Jews in a forest outside Riga.
Together with his father, Lurie survived forced labor in the so-called Small Ghetto and subsequent deportations to the Lenta labor camp and the concentration camps of Salaspils, Stutthof, and Buchenwald. In April 1945, father and son were liberated by U.S. troops at the Magdeburg-Polte subcamp.
In 1946, they emigrated to New York City, where Lurie…
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On the occasion of its reopening following the completion of accessibility improvements, the Kebbel Villa presents the exhibition NEIN! Boris Lurie and NO!art.
Born in Leningrad in 1924, Boris Lurie (1924–2008) was the youngest child of the Jewish businessman Ilja Lurie and his wife Schaina, a dentist. He grew up in Riga, Latvia. Following the German occupation in 1941, the family was confined to the Riga Ghetto. On December 8, 1941, Lurie’s mother, grandmother, younger sister, and childhood sweetheart were murdered during the Rumbula massacre, in which SS units and their collaborators killed approximately 25,000 Jews in a forest outside Riga.
Together with his father, Lurie survived forced labor in the so-called Small Ghetto and subsequent deportations to the Lenta labor camp and the concentration camps of Salaspils, Stutthof, and Buchenwald. In April 1945, father and son were liberated by U.S. troops at the Magdeburg-Polte subcamp.
In 1946, they emigrated to New York City, where Lurie…
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