The Boris Tsynman Project - Acknowledgments

The Boris Tsynman Project

Acknowledgments

Special thank you to:

My Grandmother

Mrs. Salvina Elkind

for helping me with organizing all of my grandfathers files and entrusting me with this work

My Great-Uncle

Mr. Vladimir Lapanik

for entrusting me with this work, and for buying this artwork, rescuing it, and bringing it to the Untied States

Associate Curator of Collections and Exhibitions

at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

Dr. Tahel Goldsmith

for being my contact at the IHMEC

Math & Holocaust Studies Educator

at Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago

Mr. Michael Shuman

for being my contact at the Solomon Schechter

& all the many others for there help with this project.

Most Importantly, Thank You to Solomon Schechter Day School as well as the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center for helping preserve this small portion of my families history with generations to come.

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