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special treatment
Special Treatment, 2004/2014
Geoffrey Allen Baum, Ben Chang, Todd Margolis, Keith Miller and Ellen Sandor
With generous support from Anton Hand, (art)n and Mad Catz
Virtual Reality Installation


While shedding light on the horrible conditions of the segregated sector, this work attempts to tear down the dividing wall in response to the inevitable change only time would bring. The final scene rests as a dark reminder of Europe's tragedy while also offering remembrance to those affected by such affliction.

Deconstructing the Warsaw Ghetto, 2012
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Chris Kemp and Diana Torres
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Duratrans, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
Deconstructing the Warsaw Ghetto
Deconstructing the Barracks: Auschwitz-Birkenau
A deconstructed view of the barracks from Special Treatment inspired by computer generated renderings of a hand-drawn image of an interior architecture of a barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau. An image processed black-and-white detail is part of a larger commissioned installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The original barracks tryptich included the same image in both full color and black and white image processed renderings. The images are a tribute to those who passed through these confines.

Deconstructing the Barracks: Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2011
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Chris Kemp and Diana Torres
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Duratrans, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: Creativity and Culture
A Papier-Mâché puppet, inspired by Bella Chagall’s Burning Lights. Marc and Bella Chagall would entertain children with traditional stories from Bella’s book.
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
MJH: Creativity and Culture, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches

MJH: Family and Tradition
Syrian Jewish wedding and clogs used for a pre-nuptual visit to a ritual bath
(Collection and Gift of Stella Sardell Sanua)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Family and Tradition, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches
MJH: Family Memories
Father and daughter in pre-war Berlin (Collection of Irene Katzenstein)
The daughter's baby shoe, kept as a memento when she was sent away to safety (Gift of Irene Schmied)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Family Memories, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: Compassion
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Compassion, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches
MJH: Fighting for Freedom (Soviet Jewery)
Freed Soviet Jews marching in Washington (Ira Schwarz, AP/Wide World)
"Aliyah" video sequence (Courtesey of Elana Kapul, UJA Media Center)
Protest buttons Gifts of Bonnie Gurewitsch, Glenn Richter and Robin Saipe)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Fighting for Freedom (Soviet Jewery), 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches
MJH: Making a Home
Making a Home
Jewish family in Romania
(Rivkah Natun, Beth Hatefutsoth)
Kitchen tools
(Gifts of Louis Blumengarten, Lillian Goldstein and Shari Segel Goldberg)
French kosher cookbook
(Gift of Rabbi W. Gunther and Elizabeth S. Plaut)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Making a Home, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: Faith Endures

Collections:
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
MJH: Faith Endures, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Stephanie Barish, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches
MJH: Self-Reliance
Jewish gymnasts in Berlin
(Abraham Pisarek, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
A woman athlete at a German Jewish sports club and her club blouse
(Gift of Mary Levinsky)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Self-Reliance, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: Secret Ceremonies
"Hanukkah in the Attic," drawing by Helga Weissova, a child in the Terezin Ghetto
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust


MJH: Secret Ceremonies, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: Friendship
Wire basket crafted as gift in a Nazi labor camp
(Collection of Genia Blumberg)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Friendship, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: Remember the Children
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Child's toy bunny brought to the Terezin Ghetto
(Gift of Carol Biermann)
The images that fill the Museum's Rotunda are presented as art, not artifacts. Inspired by photographs and objects found throughout the Museum, they are meant to stir memories, to help provide reflection on a century of continuity and change, hardship and hope, tragedy and transcendence.

MJH: Remember the Children, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: ISOLATION
"Hanukkah in the Attic," drawing by Helga Weissova, a child in the Terezin Ghetto
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Isolation, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
MJH: The Unquenchable Spirit
Musicians at a 1920 wedding in Poland and a violin used later by one of them in the Lachwa Ghetto and as a WWII partisan (Gift of Florence Eisen)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: The Unquenchable Spirit, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches
MJH: Keepsake
Ceremonial wine glass sent to a child refugee (Gift of Edith Riemer)
Commissioned by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

MJH: Keepsake, 1997
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Terry Welsh, Timothy Griepp, Brian Perles, Hamlin Krewson, Ben Meyer, and Ben Byrne, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University and Cynthia Beth Rubin, Stephanie Barish, Patrick Skidmore, and Miroslaw Rogala
Very special thanks to Associate Professor Steven Herrnstadt, from the College of Art and Design at Iowa State University and Robert Mitz, Brian Mustanski and Rachel Hanson
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches
Interior of a Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau
A color processed full color rendering of a hand-drawn image of an interior architecture of a barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau. An image processed black-and-white detail is part of a larger commissioned installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The barracks tryptich includes the same image in both full color and black and white image processed renderings. The images are a tribute to those who passed through these confines.

Interior of a Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1995
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Stephanie Barish, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
Collections:
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Interior of a Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau
An un-processed full color rendering of a hand-drawn image of an interior architecture of a barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau. An image processed black-and-white detail is part of a larger commissioned installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The barracks tryptich includes the same image in both full color and black and white image processed renderings. The images are a tribute to those who passed through these confines.

Interior of a Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1995
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Stephanie Barish, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
Collections:
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
MJH: Nightmare
A black and white processed rendering of a hand-drawn image of an interior architecture of a barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau. An image processed black-and-white detail is part of a larger commissioned installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The barracks tryptich includes the same image in both full color and black and white image processed renderings. The images are a tribute to those who passed through these confines.

Interior of a Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1995
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron
Stephanie Barish, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
Collections:
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation