Word: pre-war
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...Attie's first public work, The Writing on the Wall, projected pre-war photographs of the Jewish community onto the facades of houses in Berlin's eastern Scheunenviertel. The effect of seeing Jewish lives lost to the Holocaust superimposed upon the crumbling buildings that had once been their homes was deeply disorienting; the images were projected for several evenings and served as a testimony in light to passers-by. The ICA has lightbox photographs of the projections on display as documents of the 1992 event...
...when. The why? Not so simple to answer. Economics, philosophy and a new kind of education in Cambridge entered into it. The Crimson was rebuilding after the war, and the staff was heavy with veterans, Harvard juniors and seniors who were years older and more mature than their pre-war counterparts...
...increase in enrollment due to the GI Billin the late 1940s marked a permanent shift inHarvard admissions. The pre-war norm of 3,500 wasforever discarded and enrollment consistentlyremained above...
...Europe as well as the center of tragedy. The Cold War divide between East and West Germany, however, is now a matter for the history books, and Piano's task, as he noted, was to build in six years a place that would restore the site to its pre-war exuberance--in effect, to create a site that both remembers and obviates the past...
When Jews returned to their pre-war homes, they were met with more hatred...