Lauren Bergman

Family Picnic Memories, 2020

Oil on cradled panel

30 x 40 in.

Ella Milch-Sheriff

Family Picnic Memories

Musical composition

Lusia Milch with her family, 1934, Skalat

Reproduction of a gelatin silver print

Collection of Lusia Milch

Lusia Milch, 1946, Camp Foehrenwald Displaced Persons Camp

Reproduction of a gelatin silver print

Collection of Lusia Milch

This family picnic is imagined from the viewpoint of Lusia Rosenzweig Milch (pictured in the foreground of the painting), the only surviving member of her family. Lusia’s mother, Necha Rubin Rosenzweig, who wears a green dress, sits next to Lusia’s grandmother, Frieda Rubin. Lusia’s father, David, died four years before the war. Necha then married Jacob Goldberg (not pictured) and they had a daughter, Ginia.