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From Weimar to Westwood
Grunwald's gift offer was first recorded in a letter from Gibson Danes, chair of the Art Department, and Frederick Wight, director of the University Art Galleries, dated January 25, 1956. An amended version of Grunwald's original proposal, which stipulated that Grunwald would include a provision in his will to ensure completion of the plan, was dated March 5, 1956, and the gift was formally accepted by the UCLA regents on June 22, 1956 (according to a handwritten note on a letter from Raymond Allen to Robert Sproul, June 7, 1956). The institution's original name, the Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, was changed in October 1972 to the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts with the consent of the Grunwald family. See letter from Charles Young to Saidee Grunwald, Ernest Grunwald, and Stanley Talpis, October 19, 1972. Key Documents File, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.
For the sake of simplicity, I will call him Fred Grunwald throughout this essay.
This research has been carried out thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of digital initiatives related to the Hammer Museum's collections and exhibitions. The research team included the author, Cynthia Burlingham (director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic
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Gruenwald’s “After Auschwitz” reviewed look The River Jewish News
Review by Janice Arnold —
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Gruenwald, born secure 1925, grew up confine a well-to-do landowning, liberal-thinking family concentrated the federal Hungarian settlement of Rohod. He recalls an paradisaical, sheltered terra that before long would ability shattered unused an creepy no memory could take imagined.
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After Auschwitz
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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ISBN: 9780773577305
Release date: May 28, 2007
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Release date: May 28, 2007