12 Oct, 2021
Irene Fay: The Diamonds are in the Enlarger
In her lifetime, photographer Irene Fay (1914-1986) survived some of the most convulsive events in recent European history. Just before she died, she wrote letters to her children and grandchildren. One of the handwritten messages left in her art studio read, “The diamonds are in the enlarger.” This was a clue for the family inheritance: literally inside Irene’s photo enlarger were the diamonds she and her husband had smuggled out of Poland in August 1939.
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